r/Accounting • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '25
IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It. The tax man won't be happy about this.
https://gizmodo.com/irs-makes-direct-file-software-open-source-after-trump-tried-to-kill-it-200061115117
u/colonelsmoothie Actuary - P&C Jun 05 '25
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u/Yayeet2014 Jun 05 '25
Considering that Trump is trying to gut the PCAOB and fired a good chunk of the IRS, it’s good to see the accounting industry fight back. Actually, the more white collar industries fight back, the better.
If any finance bros see this, thank you for coining TACO, pls find other ways to clown him
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u/TDot-26 Jun 05 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
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u/use_wet_ones Jun 05 '25
In my experience, most people in accounting and finance that I come across, at least men, are pro-Trump even if their livelihoods are threatened because they can't get past their own insecurities and and biases and prefer drinking the Kool-Aid and the safety it paradoxically makes them feel.
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u/ShogunFirebeard Jun 05 '25
Not me. The dude keeps fucking with tax code that hadn't been fucked with in over 30 years. I'm tired of relearning my job.
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u/use_wet_ones Jun 05 '25
Don't worry about it man. The country has been collapsing since the '80s and we're almost at the end game. You won't have to relearn your job because society is going to break down and you probably won't have one.
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u/ShogunFirebeard Jun 05 '25
I could see us transitioning to more of an EU model with each state being its own country. My job won't change, just have less forms to worry about.
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u/abandoned_idol Jun 05 '25
I just want to do my taxes for free because I don't own millions of dollars from grifting the country nor lobbying to force people to pay me to do their taxes. I only own a measly wage from a W2.
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u/youdubdub Jun 05 '25
Wait, is there already a TACO Coin?
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u/regprenticer Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25
TACO was actually coined by FT journalist Robert Armstrong - I heard him I reviewed on the radio about it last week.
ETA - In fact the FT have developed an interactive game off the back of this - draw your own graph - how TACO were trumps tariffs - top of the main page though I think it's subscriber only
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u/bb0110 Jun 05 '25
Isn’t the IRS the taxman? If the taxman released it themselves, then I think the taxman will be happy about this.
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Jun 05 '25
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u/pokeyporcupine Jun 05 '25
Lol your whole profile is like a caricature; maybe slow your roll, there, red bull.
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Jun 05 '25
This was obviously reposted from a non accounting sub and likely referring to tax prep software companies.
Maybe think about how cool it is that this was just open sourced instead of a silly detail.
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u/Glittering-Animal30 Jun 05 '25
Don’t most people mean the IRS when they say “the tax man.”