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”
It looks like a legit distribution too, they removed sensitive code and rewrote functionality for this release
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
Well, that’s interesting
There is even a docker-compose.yml script.
Slightly off-topic (EU only) but: https://publiccode.eu/de/
