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the IRS recently open sourced most of Direct File, a tax tool it has been working on for a few years now. unfortunately, due to recent events, the IRS isn't working on it anymore. I decided to pick up where they left off and I'm trying to get it ready for next tax season

the work behind Direct File is really interesting and I made a lot of it available online to read as well - https://docs.openfile.tax/en/latest/

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hermannj314 ◴[] No.44435616[source]
For what it is worth, the Big Beautiful Bill contains this gem...

As soon as practicable, and not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure that the Internal Revenue Service Direct File program has been terminated.

(This is the text of the bill on the website as of the time I posted this, it can change or be wrong now.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...)

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citizenpaul ◴[] No.44436314[source]
Not that I needed any more proof of how disgustingly anti-human the government has become. So depressing.
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leptons[dead post] ◴[] No.44436707[source]
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Sohcahtoa82 ◴[] No.44437813[source]
It's gotten outright infuriating that people keep blaming government for bad initiatives that are solely the fault of Republicans.

Getting real tired of people blaming "both sides" for everything bad the government does as if it's some sort of morally or intellectually superior viewpoint. It's a thought-ending cliche.

Sure, both sides are drone-striking warmongers. Both sides are basically owned by corporations.

But only one side is welcoming literal flag-waving Nazis into their midst and working to deport legal citizens and immigrants. Only one side is fighting to take food away from children in schools. Only one side is trying to take healthcare away from senior citizens. Only one side is trying to create a Christian white ethno-state.

People try to accuse the left of trying to stifle freedom-of-speech, yet Trump is the one spreading rhetoric about wanting to jail journalists for daring to speak up against him.

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andrekandre ◴[] No.44443587{3}[source]

  > blaming government for bad initiatives that are solely the fault of Republicans
its like that by design; the worse things get the more reactionary people become, and the more likely they will vote for people who decry it loudly...
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1. leptons ◴[] No.44445630{4}[source]
Except they voted for the guy that lied and lied and lied. Whatever happened to the immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio? Nothing, that's what. It was bald-faced lie. And people believed it and still voted for the insurrectionist. The problem with this country is low-IQ, hateful, spiteful voters.
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2. andrekandre ◴[] No.44449836[source]

  > Whatever happened to the immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio? Nothing, that's what. It was bald-faced lie. And people believed it
i have no idea if people actually believed it or just wanted what they wanted and ignored it (cognitive dissonance?) but like most recent elections the votes of the battleground states is the decider, and like 2016, issues there were not appreciated sufficiently and we got what we got... people are spiteful and ignorant but they've didn't have to win this time or last imo