See ONBOARDING.md if you want to jump into running Direct File locally
HELL YEAH, DEFINITELY GONNA DO A DRY RUN OF MY TAXES!!
It sounds like this could be functional?
Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use.
It would need to be kept updated with changing laws but could we see forks turn into a FOSS tax prep software?
That would be pretty awesome
Intuit about to hire a “private Security company”
For us None-Americans: Is that good or bad?
It’s good in a sense that we can look over the code for any tomfoolery, but unless there is a smoking gun, it’s pretty worthless because it’s closed source by nature, and any changes they make won’t be published. Still, code nerds gonna code nerd.
Everything the US Federal government produces is Public Domain, by law.
Sure, but you have to file FOIA and wait. It’s not truly open source.
Public Domain meets the OSI’s definition of “open source” and the FSF’s definition of “Free Software.” What you’re describing is the state of it not being published yet.
You are correct. I guess what I should have said is that this is what they want us to see, no necessarily what they are using.
They will change something meaningless, yet fundamental about how taxes are filed, simply to render this source code useless. Watch.
You mean like replacing income tax with tariffs? /s
It looks like a legit distribution too, they removed sensitive code and rewrote functionality for this release
Well, that’s interesting
There is even a docker-compose.yml script.
