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Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted

https://github.com/openfiletax/openfile
70•elijahwright_•13h ago
the IRS recently open sourced most of Direct File, a tax tool it has been working on for a few years now. unfortunately, due to recent events, the IRS isn't working on it anymore. I decided to pick up where they left off and I'm trying to get it ready for next tax season

the work behind Direct File is really interesting and I made a lot of it available online to read as well - https://docs.openfile.tax/en/latest/

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nxobject•5h ago
Thanks so much for keeping this going, and for the late 18F for open-sourcing these implementations... I hope there's a way we can institutionalize your efforts.

As a side note, when the documentation page is viewed in a dark mode browser, I see black text on black background (https://docs.openfile.tax/en/latest/).

elijahwright_•3h ago
I'll fix the docs today, thanks
McAlpine5892•3h ago
Thank you for your work
onetom•1h ago
the https://docs.openfile.tax/en/latest/direct-file.html link in the readme results in 404
onetom•50m ago
i'm not from the US, but i did work on forms related to government workflows.

it bugged me for a long time why a person can't store facts about themselves and let some software figure out which of those facts are needed for filling out any form, which needs the usual personal facts.

then one can review the required facts and decide which ones are they willing to share.

in fact governments could even standardize the kind of info they are dealing with usually and when a citizen wants the government to do something, instead of filling out forms, they could provide their own, self-hosted fact db, run the govt's query and provide the results (after review)

1oooqooq•28m ago
never understood exactly what is the code they released. is it just the from filler that only works for people with a single w2 and no stocks etc?

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