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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

www.404media.co

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Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250604141117/https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/

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    It already has 4 PRs!

    “All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said.

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      Nice! We need a Canadian fork

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