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  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    I feel like this should have been released closer to tax season? Now the big filers will have 10 months to strategize and try to sabotage the use of this service before it hits their bottom line.

    • BlackbeardM
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      241 month ago

      It was enabled with funding from the 2022 IRA, then developed in 2023, and then rolled out as a pilot program in 2024. Now that they know the pilot went well through the deadline for tax filing, they’re green lighting it for 2025. I’m not sure it could have happened any quicker, unfortunately.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Obamacare website was launched at the beginning of the open enrollment window, and that was just a fraction of the us population. They now have 10 months to strategize how not to crash come April when every tax payer in the US trys to use this.

      • @[email protected]
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        That was back in 2013, and frankly web dev has gotten a lot easier and a lot more robust at scaling since then.

        They also learned from that catastrophic deployment, which is why they developed the USDS, the US digital services office, which pulls people in from startup and tech culture to guide these projects with modern practices for the executive branch.

        The above is rolling out this exact service.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        I bet the traffic on April 15th is going to be wild. I wonder if you get an automatic extension if the website is down when you’re trying to file?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      The use cases covered by this were already covered by the free tier on services like TurboTax. They’re not going to lose a dime.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        I suspect Intuit is making money off of the information it gets when people file taxes through TurboTax.

        Free Federal filing is also a big advertisement for their state filing options and audit support.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Are they making enough to justify offering this service though? It’s not like they did it willingly

  • @[email protected]
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    31 month ago

    Another policy win for Biden.

  • @[email protected]
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    -291 month ago

    Guaranteed it will be so convoluted and impossible to understand you will quit and just pay someone to do your taxes.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 month ago

      Usability comments were positive from what I recall reading. Seeing how TurboTax turns into a manually calculate everything yourself and good luck as soon as you step outside the normal workflow, the people that would use this just might. e.g. good luck filing domestic partner filing separately in California, no real examples to lure you into their shit higher price support tiers

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      Why are you talking about Intuit tax filling? This is the IRS.

      • @[email protected]
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        -31 month ago

        Where did I use the word intuit?

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          He’s joking that you’ve just described TurboTax

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            21 month ago

            Oh sorry.

            Side note: any ideas of why I’ve got so many down votes? It seems odd.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              Because it was a cynical take that was baseless and uninformed. This is already being used in some states, and people like it.