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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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