IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season

Re:IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 202... by jerlam on Friday May 31, 2024 @06:44PM (#40541115)

Heard mostly it's the opposite:

By mapping audit costs and returns across the income spectrum, he continued, “We saw very clear evidence that the return from audits at the top of the income distribution really exceeded by quite a bit the returns at the bottom of the income distribution.” With the top 10 percent of earners, they found, audits have the potential to return more than $12 for each $1 spent.

https://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/07/turns-out...

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Re:IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 202... by whimsicalism on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:15PM (#40541236)

thank you for sharing! i'm having trouble finding it but the explanation i gave i believe was one given by the IRS commissioner in some hearing which i took at face value, but this seems like a much more thorough analysis

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