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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

HA get fucked turbotax

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

THIS is the way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Archive of the full article: https://archive.ph/6qJ6v

[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 days ago (3 children)

TurboTax owned buy intuit, part of H&R block who has partnered with credit karma. Everything is a monopoly now

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure intuit and h&r block are competitors, not the same compamy.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You are correct.

Here's an annoying thing i just learned about H&R Block:

As of 2022, H&R Block's tax preparation service shares user data with Facebook, which can be used for targeted advertising. This can include sensitive financial information from health savings accounts and college expenses, and this tax data is shared without consent even for users who opt out of the service.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

Suck a bag of dicks, TurboTax

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 460 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

really good article with a couple surprises in there.

"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.”

Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”

“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.”"

[–] [email protected] 110 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Bro why are people downvoting this when it is so clearly a joke

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago

because its the internet in 2025 and we simply cannot tell anymore

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

I can think of two reasons and both of them are hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

/s dude, this is the Internet and you are not a person with a widely known stance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The candle that burns half as bright burns twice as long, and you, my child, will burn so very long.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sick "burn", but still a bit uncalled for, don't you think?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Perhaps i should have said hot, but seriously; more fun to not.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

only if the corporate citizen promises really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also we have to pay them whenever we want to use the code. Yes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

you bought it, why shouldn't you also rent it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Exactly! Twice the value for my tax dollar!

Not that I've ever paid taxes, but, you know, if my accounting department all suddenly died in mid march some year, and i wasnt operated out of a PO box in a tax shelter, i bet i mightve had to.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I wonder if this could be altered to work for other countries

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once DOGE realizes what it is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That was my thought too and I did so but it's been up for over a week now.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

More likely they'll just turn off or unpublish the API that it depends on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Recreating the API seems doable? If we can recreate dead MMO servers…

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Is that even available right now? Usually for this type of thing you need API keys, which are not included, nor available at all.

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