Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use

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• ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, you probably could. Issue is that you can’t self host the IRS. If they aren’t running the service that accepts the data there isn’t much you can do.

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• muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.

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  • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

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