US Direct File: Saying Goodbye

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Interesting to US tax payers perhaps, and a very fine article:

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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356

And some more context:

• IRS Direct File launched in 2024 after being created via the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act in 2024.

• The Trump administration is preparing to sign into law a new budget that orders the immediate termination of the Direct File program (see SEC. 112207 "TASK FORCE ON THE TERMINATION OF DIRECT FILE").

• 18F, the agency within the federal government probably most responsible for championing and promoting open source development (and just all-around providing good digital services at a significantly lower cost), was eliminated by the Trump administration in March.

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Thanks for sharing this. What a surprisingly poignant article for a postmortem of a tax filing application. It’s nice to see people who care so much about actually helping users.

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