[HN Gopher] The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 3...
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       The IRS is rolling out its free tax-filing tool to 30M Americans
        
       Author : janeerie
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-10-11 17:16 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | beretguy wrote:
       | I'll wait for other people to test it.
        
         | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
         | Just curious, are you worried about anything in particular?
        
           | w0m wrote:
           | 'taxes' is a 4... erm, 5 letter word for some; almost taboo.
        
             | bastawhiz wrote:
             | 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?
        
               | Scoundreller wrote:
               | What i've found delusional is the amount of duplicative
               | entry of data by individuals that's already been
               | submitted to the tax agency electronically by employers
               | and finance firms.
               | 
               | At least in Canada for the last couple years, our tax
               | software can download all that from the tax agency and
               | plug that into your forms automatically. And for most
               | people, that's all the info there is.
               | 
               | There aren't a lot of "elections" or "decisions" to
               | actually make when filing.
               | 
               | And there's a lot of stuff that doesn't happen
               | automatically because you *could* have the same
               | investments across multiple brokers, but that's not the
               | majority either.
        
               | jokethrowaway wrote:
               | 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.
        
               | neverartful wrote:
               | 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).
        
               | AStonesThrow wrote:
               | Obamacare Website Tips - SNL
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               | https://youtu.be/_rzQeDOGDxI?si=Op4NDMNL_9hedCPK
        
       | ohples wrote:
       | Good
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41737653
        
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