IRS will officially launch free online tax filing service for 2024 tax season
IRS will officially launch free online tax filing service for 2024 tax season
IR-2023-192, Oct. 17, 2023 — As part of larger transformation efforts underway, the Internal Revenue Service announced today key details about the Direct File pilot for the 2024 filing season with several states planning to join the innovative effort.
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Bout fuckin time. The tax filing system is such a racket. Paying private companies to do meaningless paperwork for us, with severe consequences if we refuse. Making shit so complicated that you need a professional to figure it out. Etc.
Did you know in other countries you don't have to file taxes, that shit just gets taken care of when you get your wages. But I bet there's still some control freaks and bootlickers who wanna say it's better to do it yourself....
I live in Norway, and every institution like banks, employers etc reports to the tax authority. My tax papers are prefilled and the only thing I have to do is check that everything is correct. Most times it is, it's just major stuff like buying a house, getting married, moving etc which might entitle you to deductions that's not automatically added. If I don't do anything, the prefilled default is filed on a certain date, so I never even have to sign in and open the tax forms if I don't want to.
If you run your own business as a sole proprietorship taxes gets more complicated, but most people don't do that.
Oh our system in the US works the exact same way... Except you also have to send the IRS your own version that they will then compare to what your employer and financial institutions sent them. Better send it in too, because they need both versions to compare of course. And if you mess it up they'll check every nook and cranny of your financials and under all your mattresses and couch cushions for that discrepancy.
But how will the companies who make money off the fact that people are forced to line up to get fleeced by them get victims now? Socialism! Communism! Terrorism! I thought this was America!
lol right. Same reasoning we need more traffic cops so we can write tickets to get money to pay for the traffic cops. Justice!
I resent your slandering of traffic cops as self-serving institution! If each village police force weren't funded with enough military hardware to win a war against a medium-sized country, who would provide the private industrial prison complex with such insane amounts of free slave labour? Do you think all those members of minorities would turn themselves in to provide free work for the owners of those prisons? They sure as hell wouldn't put themselves into the spiral of ever-deepening debt originating from arbitrary legal charges leading to prison stays where they can finally put all that freedom to good use as right-less worker drones.
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