It’s a fair worry.

As the admin of thelemmy.club though I will say my aim is absolutely not growth for it’s own sake. If the site starts to get larger than I want I will stop allowing signups. I welcome new users, but I’m not trying to be a big instance either.

Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.

Right. Well it should be good for 2025, so it depends on how much/if any changes there are in the next year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-house-republican-kill-irs-direct-file-2025-5

Will it continue to be?

Unless it’s maintained it won’t be of much use. It needs to be kept up to date with tax laws, and it relies entirely on the IRS accepting the generated returns. It seems it may function for now, though.

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

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

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

The historical backlog isn’t going anywhere. It will still be viewable on other instances.

For example here’s an old thread from a community on vlemmy.net, an instance that disappeared more than a year ago.

https://thelemmy.club/post/147822?scrollToComments=true

It sounds like this could be functional?

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.

It would need to be kept updated with changing laws but could we see forks turn into a FOSS tax prep software?

To be fair even on a globe Greenland is still massive. Just not quite as bad on Mercator.