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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced (www.404media.co)

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

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

[-] bdonvr 9 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

So before the API it still generates everything you need to mail in the forms?

[-] bdonvr 3 points 6 days ago

Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Well, you probably could. Issue is that you can't self host the IRS. If they aren't running the service that accepts the data there isn't much you can do.

[-] bdonvr 3 points 6 days ago

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

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