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bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks agoDirect 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
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.