The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
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The code to generate the forms should be simple enough.... But the amounts, the deductions, the laws, the rules...etc, these all need to be checked by an accountant or lawyer.... It might be a good method to double check a return, but if the return isn't guaranteed to be correct by the IRS or an accountant is checking details...I would be worried
Right. Well it should be good for 2025, so it depends on how much/if any changes there are in the next year.
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So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?
Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.
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Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.
What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS
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Aren't all planes cloud based though?
Yes, I agree, so as Vlad learned even if you leave them on the ground and put tires on them so they don't fly off, something might come along and successfully migrate around 40 of them to the cloud.
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It's already got 4 PRs
lol
7 open now, 2 closed
XD
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I got told I couldn't get a tax return because they flagged me for potential fraud, so I have to go to ID.me to verify.. but then my account got banned while trying to verify my information.
Fml
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What happened to the title of this?? Jeez
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What happened to the title of this?? Jeez
“The IRS Tax Filing Software that TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced” might be more clear but headlines try to cut those sorts of words out, unfortunately at the cost of readability sometimes.
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I wonder if this could be altered to work for other countries
It would be nice but I think it is not really possible. Too many difference in the laws I suppose.
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What happened to the title of this?? Jeez
They accidentally included 8 verbs. (tax, filing, is, trying, kill, got, open, sourced)
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Linux geeks, assemble!
Web devs too!
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We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.
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I got told I couldn't get a tax return because they flagged me for potential fraud, so I have to go to ID.me to verify.. but then my account got banned while trying to verify my information.
Fml
Guess that means they don't want your money! Woo! (this is not legal advice, pay your taxes)
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They accidentally included 8 verbs. (tax, filing, is, trying, kill, got, open, sourced)
But most of those aren't used as verbs here.
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Dunno, sounds like some fucking commie shit to be. And not the kind i can someyimes get on board with when it comes time to do secret police shebanigans, but the bad scary kind where they dont even have a use for police.
Wouldn't it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?
Edit: yes of course we rent it back!
Wouldn’t it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?
To be fair, since it's public domain, anyone can take it, modify it (and not release modifications), and try to screw you over w/ it.
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We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.
That's impractical, because for a pinky promise, you need to actually lock pinkies. We need a surrogate, like maybe the Commander in Chief?
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Bro why are people downvoting this when it is so clearly a joke
A lot of people are completely incapable of reading obvious sarcasm, which is too bad.
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Sick "burn", but still a bit uncalled for, don't you think?
A funny joke is always called for.
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A HUD is a HUD
sure but the HUD from the F-35 is very specifically designed to work in an F-35. It's very similar, and comes from the same family, as the software running on other planes. But it's not identical.
And yes, performance limits would be hard coded into the software because the HUD needs to alert the pilot when they are getting close.
Edit: and that's ignoring the fact that a lot of this stuff comes from private companies so you'll run into things like IP/patent laws
That's what config files are for. It would be a nightmare to hardcode weight and balance and have to recompile the HUD every time you change the loadout or refuel the plane.
Most code, algorithms, etc are not any more sensitive than the concept of desks and file cabinets. No, guidance programs for missiles probably shouldn't be put on GitHub, but there's a reason RSA and other encryption algorithms were open sourced. It's better to have more eyes looking for inefficiencies, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities than to just assume it's good because no-one on the team responsible is smart/engaged enough to find them.
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“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"
Nice sentiment, but bad take. Open-sourcing the software that runs our military equipment would be a fantastic gift to the bad actors of the world.
So open sourcing Tor, which protects our foreign operatives, was a bad idea? Implementing secure sockets for the web (TLS) was a bad idea? Publishing security vulnerabilities publicly (CVE system) was a bad idea?
All of those help our adversaries, but our adversaries also have an incentive to improve the code so everyone benefits.
Sure, there are probably some things that shouldn't be released (i.e. something w/ a legitimate national security concern), but by and large, most things should. Tax software absolutely should, because there's zero reason for the software you use to file your taxes (which is a legal requirement) to not be publicly auditable, because you're on the hook for any mistakes it makes.
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