#direct-file — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #direct-file, aggregated by home.social.
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Actually, ending Direct File cost US #taxpayers approximately $23 BILLION per year.
In the two years it was available, Direct File achieved a 98% satisfaction rating.
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Bring back Direct File and save Americans millions of $ in tax preparation fees!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kill-switch/id1449757372?i=1000760204402
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#IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing #tax returns for #free, will not be offered next year, the #Trump admin has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the #DirectFile program said that “IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during #Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast & economical.
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IRS Notifies States There Will Be No Direct File Program For 2026
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The fate of the #DirectFile program, the #free electronic #tax return filing system developed during President #Biden’s #Democratic admin, is also unclear. #Republican lawmakers & commercial tax preparation companies had complained it was a waste of #taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist, although they are hard to use. #BillyLong said during his confirmation hearing that it would be one of the first programs that come up for discussion if he were confirmed.
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#IRS #DirectFile getting released as #FreeSoftware is a big win for free software advocates: https://u.fsf.org/47a
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The #IRS #Tax Filing #Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Released as #OpenSource
#DirectFile and the IRS's #FreeFile program more broadly have been the subject of years of #lobbying efforts by financial technology giants like #Intuit, which makes #TurboTax. #DOGE also sought to kill Direct File.
About 300,000 people used it last year as part of a limited pilot program, and those who did gave it incredibly positive reviews!
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/
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As políticas públicas que utilizam #SoftwareLivre representam "ilhas de #póscapitalismo", no sentido indicado por #MarkFisher.
Viva o #SoftwarePúblico!"…because it is free and because it is an example of #governmentworking, #DirectFile and the #IRS’s Free File program more broadly have been the subject of years of lobbying efforts by financial technology giants like Intuit, which makes TurboTax. #DOGE sought to kill Direct File, and currently, there is language in Trump’s massive budget reconciliation bill that would kill Direct File. Experts say that “ending [the] Direct File program is a gift to the tax-prep industry that will cost taxpayers time and money.”
@jasonkoeblerhttps://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/
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An internal IRS report says that 94% of Direct File users rated their experience as "excellent" or "above average".
(And as the article mentions, even though it's been shut down, it is open-source! https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file)
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Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers
https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/
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The #IRS #DirectFile program has saved #taxpayers millions of dollars and made filing quick & convenient. Losing the program at this point would be a travesty. #US taxpayers need to be liberated from the predations of incompetent tax prep companies. Tax prep charges too much and makes too many mistakes.
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#DirectFile è un sistema dell'Internal Revenue Service, ente governativo, per consentire la dichiarazione dei redditi elettronica gratuita, lanciato sotto la presidenza di Joe Biden
Direct File ha minacciato i modelli di profitto delle società private di preparazione dei conti fiscali, che addebitano al contribuente medio circa 140 dollari all'anno e hanno speso milioni di dollari per fare lobbying contro l'alternativa pubblica
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ending-free-irs-tax-filing-program-what-know-2060647
cc @phastidio
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You shouldn't have to sacrifice your freedom to file your #taxes electronically: https://u.fsf.org/46g #IRS #FreeSoftware #DirectFile #FSF
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You shouldn't have to sacrifice your freedom to file your #taxes electronically: https://u.fsf.org/46g #IRS #FreeSoftware #DirectFile #FSF
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Buried in this article is the plan to eliminate the #IRS #DirectFile program which has saved #taxpayers millions of dollars and made filing quick & convenient. Losing the program at this point would be a travesty. #US taxpayers need to be liberated from the predations of incompetent tax prep companies. Tax prep charges too much and makes too many mistakes.
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The #IRS #DirectFile program should be free as in freedom: https://u.fsf.org/46g #FreeSoftware #UserFreedom #FSF
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…Among the marquee websites that #18F employees helped build or revamp are the #IRS’s free tax filing service known as #DirectFile & the National Weather Service’s page, weather.gov.
But since #Trump returned to the Oval Office, 18F has also been targeted by #ElonMusk, the #tech #billionaire whom Trump tasked w/cutting back the government. #Musk wrote last month in a post on his social media platform, X, that “that group has been deleted.”
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Paying taxes without generating profit for some middleman is woke? Who knew?
Thanks to DOGE, millions of Americans have just lost their ability to file taxes online for free.
Now they must use third party paid services like Turbo Tax.
This is 0% about inefficiency and 100% about ripping you off.
h/t Micah Erfan on Twitter
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The IRS is hiring product managers. Here's your chance to sock it to the tax prep lobby
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/815736500
#ProductManagement #CivicTech #Government #PublicInterestTech #IRS #DirectFIle
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More #NJ #NewJersey news: the state joins IRS Direct File!
"More than 1.3 million New Jerseyans will be eligible to use the free online filing tool during the next Filing Season."
https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562024/approved/20240724a.shtml
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The end of May coinciding with the end of a four-day workweek was a pleasant bonus of Memorial Day’s spot on the calendar this year. Another bonus: I had my last client-paid copy for the month filed by 2:09 p.m. Friday.
Patreon readers got one other post, a rant about the woeful UX of a Hilton offer for double points on upcoming hotel stays. That didn’t get published until almost 9 p.m. on Friday–which is still a lot better than the filing frenzy I’ve exhibited in the final minutes of the final days of other months.
5/28/2024: T-Mobile to Buy Regional Carrier UScellular, PCMag
I didn’t notice the name on the credit of the photo of a T-Mobile flag on a golf course that I’d selected from Getty Images to illustrate this post until I copied that metadata to paste into PCMag’s CMS. That’s when I realized that my Georgetown Voice friend Darren Carroll, a seriously talented photographer, had taken that shot during an idle moment at a golf tournament sponsored by the carrier.
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5/28/2024: A Lot of Websites Ask You About Cookies. How Should You Answer?, AARP
My editor at AARP asked if I could write an explainer about those dialogs you see on so many pages that suggest, ask, implore or assume that you’re okay with the site–and, in most cases, advertising networks–writing information about your visit to small text files saved on your device. After talking to numerous experts, I continue to think that your best response to those dialogs, should you not want to be tracked by advertisers, is to use a browser like Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox that will block ad-network trackers by default.
5/29/2024: Verizon Enlists AST SpaceMobile to Kill Off Its US Dead Zones, PCMag
Verizon’s apparent disinterest in using low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide at least emergency-level coverage in dead zones was looking increasingly weird. Then the carrier signed up the same satellite operator as AT&T to provide that backup connectivity, although it seems to be more conservative in its sales pitch than AT&T.
5/30/2024: Android Update Will Let You Fix Dumb Texting Typos (to Other Android Users), PCMag
I’ve yet to get the update to Google’s Messages app that enables this editing of sent RCS messages–assuming the recipients also have the same update installed–so I cannot yet report on how satisfying it might feel to fix a text typo.
5/30/2024: IRS Direct File App to Return for 2025, Welcome Taxpayers in More States, PCMag
This was one bit of news that I didn’t expect to see coming this week, but with the information-security conference I was attending not yielding any obvious breaking news, I jumped on the chance to write this up instead. And to point out to readers that while the IRS may call this rollout of its free tax-prep app “permanent,” you have to expect that voters returning convicted felon Donald Trump to the White House would soon be followed by Trump scrapping this program.
5/31/2024: FCC: It’s Game Over for Affordable Broadband Connectivity Program, PCMag
The official end of the ACP and the $30 monthly discounts on broadband it provided for more than 20 million American households led to my editors asking me to cover this program one more time.
#ACP #AffordableConnectivityProgram #AndroidFeatureDrop #ASTSpaceMobile #cookies #DirectFile #IRS #RCS #satelliteBroadband #TMobile #taxPrepSoftware #textingTypo #trackingCookies #USCellular #UScellular #verizon
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From The Washington Post:
"IRS Direct File is here to stay. All 50 states are invited.
The Biden administration hopes to eventually make the free tax filing site an option for most Americans."
#GiftLink = https://wapo.st/3KmYkNR
"Republicans have criticized it as a costly and unnecessary government alternative to private-sector offerings… "
But of course they did 🙄
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