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I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System (www.nytimes.com)

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Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency’s plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Americans: demand from your government the responsibility to handle your taxes directly.

I'm in the EU, from a small country, and all tax forms have to be filed through government tax authority servers, running state designed programs.

I can hire a legion of accountants, a lawyer firm and third party to represent me and still everything will still go through the same channels.

Or I can simply use that same program, through the same website, with my secure credentials, and file my own taxes for free, calling the tax department whenever I have doubts on what I'm doing.

demand that your taxes supply you with the government services it supports