The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
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Do you have a source we can reference for that particular bit of shitbaggery?
Edit: congressional report on the shit bags in question:
https://www.classaction.org/media/hartz-v-taxact-inc-congressional-report.pdf
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The more money you pay someone to find the loop holes in the tax code the less likely you are to support out government and its war machine.
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Unless it's maintained it won't be of much use. It needs to be kept up to date with tax laws, and it relies entirely on the IRS accepting the generated returns. It seems it may function for now, though.
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
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
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The GitHub page has a section for this:
Exempted Code
Not all source code, documentation and metadata used in the development of Direct File is included in this repository. Specifically, any code or data that is considered Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Federal Tax Information (FTI), Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), or source code developed for National Security Systems (NSS), as defined in 40 U.S.C. § 11103, is exempt. Due to these restrictions, certain pieces of functionality have been removed or rewritten.
But does it build?!
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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
So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?
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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.
