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The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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'taxes' is a 4... erm, 5 letter word for some; almost taboo.

Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?

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Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?

What makes you think that a division of the federal government is going to get it right the first time? I'm being serious (not snarky). Have you ever worked with the federal government? I have (as a contractor) and I was constantly amazed (not in a good way).

It's literally not their first time. It launched for tax year 2023.

Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?

Because the agency which decides whether I did my taxes correctly is likely going to have terrible UX and has an incentive to hide options for me to save on taxes? I pay private agents all the time to avoid having to deal with terrible governments interfaces and find shortcuts, wins for me.

As opposed to the terrible UX of the for profit companies that have been providing the same services for years? For most people, the cost of TurboTax is higher than whatever mystical savings they might "find".

Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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Right, but given the choice between the agency that decides whether you did your taxes correctly and a for profit company, why would you choose the latter?

Obamacare Website Tips - SNL https://youtu.be/_rzQeDOGDxI?si=Op4NDMNL_9hedCPK

The USDS, which helped build this site, was literally started because of the embarrassing launch of healthcare.gov. And as the article states, the test launch for tax year 2023 went extremely smoothly.

Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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I’ll wait for other people to test it.

Just curious, are you worried about anything in particular?

it getting hacked is probably the top concern. if an attacker can access my information on that site, they can steal my identity and conveniently also know exactly how much that identity is worth stealing. Not that not using the system is any guarantee that I'll be safe either. my data's already been leaked by Equifax so I'm expecting someone will try something eventually. scammers have already tried calling my mom, telling her I'm in the hospital but fortunately she was able to call me and I was able to say that I wasn't.

which is to say, that worry shouldn't stop anyone from trying their site.

Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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What makes you think that a division of the federal government is going to get it right the first time? I'm being serious (not snarky). Have you ever worked with the federal government? I have (as a contractor) and I was constantly amazed (not in a good way).

It's literally not their first time. It launched for tax year 2023.

I still wouldn't use it this early.

Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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It's literally not their first time. It launched for tax year 2023.

I still wouldn't use it this early.

I completely agree. I pay like 80 or 90 bucks a year to file with TurboTax and can afford to pay that for a few years while the kinks are worked out on the IRS system.

Re: The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans

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I still wouldn't use it this early.

I completely agree. I pay like 80 or 90 bucks a year to file with TurboTax and can afford to pay that for a few years while the kinks are worked out on the IRS system.

It always amuses my how indoctrinated Americans are.
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