Open Source Tax Software
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Open Source Tax Software
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Re: Open Source Tax Software
#2Unhappy with turbotax I have been using freetaxusa for many years which is also free.
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#3This work excites me a lot, but I can’t help but wonder if this should be a government-funded rather than volunteer-driven effort.
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#4Google link if helpful.
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#5This work excites me a lot, but I can’t help but wonder if this should be a government-funded rather than volunteer-driven effort.
Government funded efforts can be disrupted by the tax software lobby.
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#6This work excites me a lot, but I can’t help but wonder if this should be a government-funded rather than volunteer-driven effort.
Should be, yes. Will be, no. Tax preparation is a multi-billion dollar industry.
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#7The site seems down but I really want to see how someone was able to fit the entirety of the US tax code into an Excel workbook.
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#8No way would I ever trust open source tax software not to mess things up somehow. The paid software has a big incentive to get it right.
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#9No way would I ever trust open source tax software not to mess things up somehow. The paid software has a big incentive to get it right.
Do you not trust any opensource software and prefer only paid software to build your systems?
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#10The real problem here is that Intuit and other companies lobby millions to maintain their status quo. The right thing to do would be to put every single dollar spent on these corporations into a government program that develops this kind of software or even does the taxes for you (this already exists in many countries in the EU.) Instead, in the US, you pay for Turbotax, they make a profit out if it, and then they use part of the money to lobby and keep the tax code and system rigged for their own benefit. I don't know if open source software is the solution here -- and as far as I know, the tax forms change every year, so it will be forever playing catch-up -- but it seems to be missing the point entirely.