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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by throwway120385 on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:09AM (#43681477)
We could do that in the US as the IRS has everything they need. The reason we don't is that there are people in Congress who believe that taxes should be a big pain so people resent the IRS and want to gut it. And companies like Intuit want it to be a pain so they can keep making money essentially rent seeking.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by toomuchtodo on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:11AM (#43681505)
This is true, but progress is being made.

https://directfile.irs.gov/ is the IRS' direct file service, for those interested. It is supported in concert with 25 states from a tax filing perspective, and is free. From their email newsletter, improvements are rolling out month by month (continual expansion of tax scenarios supported).

https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-direct-file-for-free

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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by angry_moose on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:14AM (#43681552)
Almost certainly going to get killed by DOGE though:

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-direct-file-doge-treasur...

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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by toomuchtodo on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:17AM (#43681597)
DOGE and this admin won't be around forever. Looking forward to the reboot.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by throwaway81348 on Monday April 14, 2025 @12:05PM (#43682822)
>won't be around forever they're working on it.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by xnx on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:10PM (#43683532)
I wish I shared your optimism. I think the process will be more like rebuilding from a pile of rubble than restarting a working system.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by toomuchtodo on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:21PM (#43683704)
Tomato tomato. No optimism, only positive nihilism. We're all default dead, humans have existed for ~300k years, this is another bump in the road.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by blitzar on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:13AM (#43681541)
DOGE declared it woke fraud, waste and abuse.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by throwway120385 on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:15AM (#43681569)
Something about DEI I guess?
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by ahoka on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:16AM (#43681583)
Isn't that Direct File? Unless they give it the axe of course...
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by esafak on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:11AM (#43681497)
If you gut the IRS are taxes abolished too? How does that work?
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by jfarina on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:13AM (#43681530)
They're abolished as long as you can afford the lawyers to fight an underfunded government agency indefinitely.
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Re:I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won by glenstein on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:16AM (#43681584)
A great question, and worth asking those who want to gut it.
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