Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program.
    • TauZero@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Almost all taxes are collected from the paycheck before you even get your hands on it. The filing is mostly for the tax return on the overpayment. They’ve already thought of it. How you gonna stop paying?

          • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            Yeah… I thought about not paying taxes last April but I don’t want to draw unwanted attention to myself. Did the IRS have a bunch of people let go? Yes. Does that mean that they don’t have enough staff to realize I didn’t pay and come after me? Maybe I don’t want to find out. I’m self employed through my own LLC and I don’t know enough about taxes to do them on my own anymore and I have to pay someone to help me anyway, so the free software wouldn’t have helped much. Last April was the first time I had to do this, prior to that I’d been an employee at a company that withheld taxes.

      • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        My 1099 jobs I’m supposed to pay the taxes.

        My W2 jobs, I just set allowances to like 20 so at least the bare minimum is being taken out.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I mean, you don’t have your money, you bank does.

      Just change some numbers and “thank you for paying you taxes, a additional 50% tip has been automatically applied”

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Cash it out beforehand then. The bank has no right to keep your money if you want it out.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Whatever; the IRS website is hot garbage. It’s a major PITA to navigate; I was never even able to successfully verify my identity to be able to use it.

    Nothing of value was lost.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Billy Long, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is under increased scrutiny following disclosures that he used recent campaign donations to repay a personal loan from his unsuccessful 2022 Senate campaign.

    https://ifindtaxpro.com/tax-blog/trumps-irs-nominee-billy-long-faces-scrutiny-over-campaign-funds-and-donor-ties/

    President Donald Trump’s choice for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead, according to federal records reviewed by the Lever.

    In new campaign finance filings, Long disclosed an outstanding personal loan of $130,000 that he had made to his failed 2022 US Senate campaign. The dormant Senate campaign committee had raised less than $36,000 in the last two years, which could have forced Long to absorb the losses on the loan.

    But after Trump named Long to head the IRS, the committee suddenly raked in nearly $137,000 in less than three weeks in January — money that Long then used to remunerate himself, according to disclosure documents filed this week.

    At least one-third of the money came from donors working at firms in the tax consultancy industry or involved in major tax-related legal battles.

    https://jacobin.com/2025/04/billy-long-debt-trump-irs/

    Note that last one, and how Long is moving budget from free filing to auditing support.

    • ghost9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The words came from the dick. It’s just that technically the words did come out of his mouth.

  • ZMoney@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    We’re at the point in wealth concentration where you can just look at someone and tell when they think poor people should be slaves. He looks like the Monopoly Man.

  • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Fuck. I used it for the first time last year and it was incredibly easy. Now I have to go back to being charged by TurboTax for something that should be automatic and free.

  • klobuerschtler@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know any EU country, that doesn’t do the taxes for their employed citizens. You normally only need to amend your taxes for stuff outside of your salary. The US truly is not a first world country it seems.

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Seems like a good time to stop paying taxes.

    Wouldn’t that be a cool boycott against this administration? No taxation without representation as they used to say…