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IRS needs 11,000 hires to ‘maintain’ phone support for 2026 filing season, plans on 60% cut to IT staffing
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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Why don’t they just use an algorithm to do all of America’s taxes? This is literally one of 5 places where the US government needs more (non-llm) automation, rather than less.
Lobbying from the Tax Preparation Industry.
What throws me off is "Why are American Tax Prep Companies able to lobby against the government doing the taxes, when most other places didn't have this issue?"
And why is QuickBooks still the “default” for most small businesses despite everyone knowing how corrupt Intuit is?
Friends don’t let friends use Intuit products.
They have access to pretty much all the data as we become a surveillance state. It would be stupid not to.
I’m not in love with sacrificing privacy for the sake of tax preparation though.
They just trashed our working FREE filing option from the IRS as a gift to the Filing Companies.
They just made it open source, which is a good thing unless im missing something important?
I had not seen that. That's ...Interesting.
However, they'll need to recertify their ability to submit those files properly with the IRS every year. Not sure how that would even be accomplished through an open source project.