The Tax Authority prepares the sources of direct file files after Trump tried to kill him

The direct file, a free tax deposit program that has long been presented to the internal revenue service, may be at risk of killing by the Trump administration, but the code that made the service possible will live even if the program is not the same. According to 404 MediaThe Tax Authority has published most of the code for its direct file on GitHub, which makes it open and available to others to use it, which angered tax pressure groups everywhere.

Before you mistake this step as a resistance process by those trying to keep the project alive, the open direct file was always part of the plan. The code was published according to Share lawWhich requires the agencies to share the designated source code (though, of course, the Trump administration is not always driven by the law, so this was not given).

in The report was published last yearAnd the Tax Authority explained that its thinking about the blog openly made it possible: “First, this will enable the general audit in this blog and invite independent groups to evaluate its accuracy and inform possible issues. Secondly, other tax officials, in states and international states, can build on the work of the Tax Authority and contribute to improving the strength of the program over time and providing additional public value.”

Now after the symbol is available, others should help develop taxes (and we hope they are free). According to 404 Media, the code cannot work independently because it continues to depend on the internal tax department systems; However, it provides a strong essential line for a guaranteed platform mainly to be compatible with the federal government, as the government itself is its structure.

In a relevant note, 404 media indicated that many people who participated strongly in building a direct file for the Tax Authority have left the government since then and joined the future of the tax project for the economic security project, where they are working on projects designed to make tax provision more simple and easier. It seems just a kind of people who may want to build something based on an open source code base.

Getting the direct source file comes at a time when it is a goal on the back of the program. The Trump administration, Elon Musk and tax pressure groups began to kill the direct file in one way or another. Doug Musk Dawn 18fThe government agency, which was the key to building a direct file, and began explicitly Close the direct file tool Although it is very popular among taxpayers. The most beautiful Trump bill also Lower the entire budget for the direct fileLeave it dead in water, which will definitely stir Intuit, the company behind Turbotax, that Millions of dollars spent the pressure to kill The option to provide free taxes from the government.