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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by netfortius on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:37PM (#34735666)
Why couldn't they design and offer alternatives similar to the French tax services (alongside many other French online services) [1]?

[1] https://franceconnect.gouv.fr/franceconnect

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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by mike_d on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:15AM (#34736272)
Because it is the law in the United States that agencies must transition to the centrally managed login.gov. ID.me never should have been rolled out in the first place.
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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by sofixa on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:54AM (#34736890)
To expand on this, France Connect is open source and uses open standards (OAuth), so any government can adopt it.
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Re:A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers al... by 2Gkashmiri on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:32AM (#34737111)
but muh "we must reinvent the wheel because look at these poor multi-billion dollar companies. how will they pay for their CEO's planes"
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