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The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.

Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/