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Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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Re: Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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Post by mullingitover »

> Next week, DOGE and IRS leadership are expected to host dozens of engineers in DC so they can begin “ripping up the old systems” and building the API, an IRS engineering source tells WIRED. The goal is to have this task completed within 30 days. Sources say there have been multiple discussions about involving third-party cloud and software providers like Palantir in the implementation.

Well yeah, obviously bring in Palantir. 10x the headcount so they can have the task completed in 3 days.

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Post by krapp »

tmpz22 wrote: post #3

"We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off."

"We're making the mother of all omelettes here, can't fret over every egg!"

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Post by gopher_space »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #4

I imagine this will make the "information wants to be free" people happy but, as I am not one of them, jesus christ. These are not serious people.

Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising. More of a truism than a license to all the things.

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Post by CaliforniaKarl »

eastbound wrote: post #8
Raidion wrote: post #2

I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.

Then those who vote for higher public services should be the ones to pay. Which, if they did, would solve the left/right dichotomy. But no, those who want the public services want the money taken from the other half. Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power. At the thought of leftists in power, I thin…

You can find most other residential candidate returns at https://www.taxnotes.com/presidential-tax-returns

The current Vice-President hasn’t released any. The former President only has some posted due to successful subpoena.

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Post by Nextgrid »

They might be flying too close to the sun on this one. A lot of the IRS' "inefficiency" is intentional, so it can be abused by moneyed interests to evade tax without anyone noticing.

Fixing those inefficiencies would bring this problem to light and force them to deal with it. While it's not past the current administration to formally legalize it, it's still "stirring shit" for no good reason and worse than leaving things as-is where the evasion falls through the cracks.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

gopher_space wrote: post #14
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #4

I imagine this will make the "information wants to be free" people happy but, as I am not one of them, jesus christ. These are not serious people.

Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising. More of a truism than a license to all the things.

> Information wants to be free in the same sense that hot air wants to be rising

Except information left alone doesn’t become free, it degrades. It takes energy to preserve it in an accessible form. That, in turn, tends towards making it very much not free.

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Post by mullingitover »

eastbound wrote: post #8
Raidion wrote: post #2

I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.

Then those who vote for higher public services should be the ones to pay. Which, if they did, would solve the left/right dichotomy. But no, those who want the public services want the money taken from the other half. Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power. At the thought of leftists in power, I thin…

> Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power.

"We destroyed the economy for a generation, but at least we stopped people from making us put pronouns in our bio."

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

cdot2 wrote: post #6

If this was done two years ago HN would be talking about how great it is.

> HN would be talking about how great it is

If it were happening two years ago it would have used dummy data. USDS wasn’t known for committing crimes the way almost everyone at DOGE has.

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Post by [deleted] »

eastbound wrote: post #8
Raidion wrote: post #2

I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.

Then those who vote for higher public services should be the ones to pay. Which, if they did, would solve the left/right dichotomy. But no, those who want the public services want the money taken from the other half. Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power. At the thought of leftists in power, I thin…

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