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US IRS free online tax filing open source repo

52 points accountinhn 2 hours ago 13 comments

toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | parent

I expect IRS DirectFile to return and made permanent with recent Congressional regime change.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004511

fedpost 28 minutes ago | parent

The PRs are mildly entertaining, as are all the ones they've closed. Doesn't seem to be run by someone who knows what they're doing?

2OEH8eoCRo0 17 minutes ago | parent

Maybe their first exposure to Git? I only had ClearCase experience and was a noob when finally moving away from defense work.

waltbosz 14 minutes ago | parent

I wouldn't be surprised . I worked as a developer placed at a state government agency. Many of the people who worked there seem to have no natural drive to do good work.

ram1500natrluvr 9 minutes ago | parent

In the first PR:

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/pull/1

elijah-wright commented on Jun 3, 2025

> 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

bee_rider 8 minutes ago | parent

Is this even legit?

aliljet 10 minutes ago | parent

Who is making an agent-forward turbotax competitor? Take my money already. Good god, the previous generation of tools suck.

aliljet 10 minutes ago | parent

And if you want to maket his with me, message me! I kind of loathe the industry and would love to help.

bentt 6 minutes ago | parent

I cannot see how Turbotax survives the oncoming AI Coding freight train. All the information is out there.

makuchaku 5 minutes ago | parent

How do we know this is from IRS?