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


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

Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “ future of tax filing ” in the private sector. Second, other tax administrators, both in states and internationally, could build upon and contribute to the IRS’s work, improving the robustness of the software over time and providing additional public value,” it wrote. They will “suggest some opportunities to continue to advance access to filing and tax benefits, both short-term things that can be done by states and/or nonprofits and longer-term policy ideas,” he said.

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