What happened to the title of this?? Jeez
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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They accidentally included 8 verbs. (tax, filing, is, trying, kill, got, open, sourced)
“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.
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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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.
hahahahahaha!
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
Right. Well it should be good for 2025, so it depends on how much/if any changes there are in the next year.
Direct File is maintained by the IRS themselves though.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-house-republican-kill-irs-direct-file-2025-5
Will it continue to be?
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