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Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by gavinhoward on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:13PM (#37921643)
Relative a of FreeTaxUSA employee here.

I'll let her know. She cares about UX.

Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by starik36 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:28PM (#37921837)
This is a complaint on Reddit during tax time every single year. I would be surprised if no one at FreeTaxUSA heard of it.
Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by gavinhoward on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:33PM (#37921900)
Interesting. Unfortunately, from the way she talks about it, the kind of people that FreeTaxUSA hires would probably not be on Reddit most of the time.

Anyway, I let her know.

Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by junar on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:55PM (#37922141)
Personally, my pain point is the mail-in Form 8453 that comes with the "summary" option. I'd wish for a PDF upload option instead. At least two competitor products have this capability:

[1] https://www.form8949.com/tto-e-file-attach-work-around.html

[2] https://www.taxact.com/support/21598/2022/e-filing-attaching...

Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by aojdwhsd on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:24PM (#37922421)
Are there any details about their tech stack you can share? I know they're using Java (there were pages ending in .jsp when I filed my taxes through them) but that's about it.
Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by gavinhoward on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:25PM (#37923827)
Not really. The .jsp pages are all I've seen. Sorry.
Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by MobileVet on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:03PM (#37923688)
Also give her a high five and thank her! FreeTaxUSA is fantastic, even with the limitations.
Re:Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states by gavinhoward on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:27PM (#37923835)
I did, thank you!