• errer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Recreating the API seems doable? If we can recreate dead MMO servers…

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      2 days ago

      Are you comparing online game servers to the American tax system? Because I really want a ban.

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      2 days ago

      Well, you probably could. Issue is that you can’t self host the IRS. If they aren’t running the service that accepts the data there isn’t much you can do.

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      Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use