Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once DOGE realizes what it is
More likely they’ll just turn off or unpublish the API that it depends on.
Is that even available right now? Usually for this type of thing you need API keys, which are not included, nor available at all.
Recreating the API seems doable? If we can recreate dead MMO servers…
Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.
Well, you probably could. Issue is that you can’t self host the IRS. If they aren’t running the service that accepts the data there isn’t much you can do.
I wonder if this could be altered to work for other countries
We’ve already got free software for filing taxes, kthxbye!
Oh that’s good to know what’s it’s called
because this is the first pull request and something many people will see, I would like to say that I learned from a former project manager at the IRS that development on Direct File has stopped since January. the source code is only public because of federal law. it’s not likely that this is going to be merged but it’s possible that the components of Direct File might be used elsewhere
Don’t get your hopes up too much.
TurboTax owned buy intuit, part of H&R block who has partnered with credit karma. Everything is a monopoly now
Yeah I saw Monopoly Fortnite I wonder what is next?
I know, what are they making next? Lord of the Rings edition? Star Wars? Oh the humanities.
It’s already got 4 PRs
lol
7 open now, 2 closed
XD
One of the currently open ones is this one:
https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/pull/11
Hilarious
Low effort pull, deletes the problem instead of putting the work in to correct it. /jk
IDK LGTM
Suck a bag of dicks, TurboTax
I got told I couldn’t get a tax return because they flagged me for potential fraud, so I have to go to ID.me to verify… but then my account got banned while trying to verify my information.
Fml
Guess that means they don’t want your money! Woo! (this is not legal advice, pay your taxes)
I love id.me, I’m so glad I had to give my facial data to them to collect unemployment insurance!
What happened to the title of this?? Jeez
“The IRS Tax Filing Software that TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced” might be more clear but headlines try to cut those sorts of words out, unfortunately at the cost of readability sometimes.
They accidentally included 8 verbs. (tax, filing, is, trying, kill, got, open, sourced)
But most of those aren’t used as verbs here.
right, but you can only tell what’s used as a verb after you’ve parsed it.
The more money you pay someone to find the loop holes in the tax code the less likely you are to support out government and its war machine.
It’s licensed under CC0 to anyone wondering. BSD 0-Clause would probably be better but still fantastic.
CC0 is a horrible thing to use for software. It seems great, but it specifically does not give patent rights. Compare that to MIT which implicitly does so. CC0 specifically says it does not.
The US government doesn’t (to my knowledge at least) have copyright protections so MIT wouldn’t be possible. BSD 0-Clause is just better because e.g. Austria doesn’t allow you to cede copyright to the public domain and CC0 directly mentions the public domain in the terms of the license.
Interesting, SPDX does not list 0BSD as FSF approved, but FSF does approve it. This isn’t the first problem I’ve seen with SPDX’s list. They say CC0 is FSF approved but FSF only says it is approved for things besides code.
Archive of the full article: https://archive.ph/6qJ6v
hahahahahaha!
Lmao, nice
