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DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

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Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."
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    Repo: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

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

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

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

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            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.

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

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      Comment from the first PR:

      because this is the first pull request and something many people will see, I would like to say that I learned from a former project manager at the IRS that development on Direct File has stopped since January. the source code is only public because of federal law. it’s not likely that this is going to be merged but it’s possible that the components of Direct File might be used elsewhere

      Don’t get your hopes up too much.

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

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      Yeah I saw Monopoly Fortnite I wonder what is next?

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        I know, what are they making next? Lord of the Rings edition? Star Wars? Oh the humanities.

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    What happened to the title of this?? Jeez

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    Suck a bag of dicks, TurboTax

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    It’s licensed under CC0 to anyone wondering. BSD 0-Clause would probably be better but still fantastic.

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      CC0 is a horrible thing to use for software. It seems great, but it specifically does not give patent rights. Compare that to MIT which implicitly does so. CC0 specifically says it does not.

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        The US government doesn’t (to my knowledge at least) have copyright protections so MIT wouldn’t be possible. BSD 0-Clause is just better because e.g. Austria doesn’t allow you to cede copyright to the public domain and CC0 directly mentions the public domain in the terms of the license.

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          Interesting, SPDX does not list 0BSD as FSF approved, but FSF does approve it. This isn’t the first problem I’ve seen with SPDX’s list. They say CC0 is FSF approved but FSF only says it is approved for things besides code.

          https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

          https://spdx.org/licenses/

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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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    https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

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

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    Lmao, nice

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