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This unelected fascist has no authority. Fuck him. Ignore him and refuse access...
I love turbo tax and intuit. They're my favorite companies. I hope I can give more money to the IRS via intuit and hrblock. Thank you, Elongated Muskrat, you've truly saved America.
Haha! Joke's on them, people are so broke most just use the Form 1040 or Form 1040-SR (replaced 1040EZ) forms.
According to Forbes, the only thing he actually deleted was the 18F's (group that created Direct File) Xitter account. Lol
Really Musky of him to confuse the 2
I mean his social media obsession was what really showed behind the curtain of his fraying sanity the past few years, so I'm not especially surprised that he can't seem to distinguish between a Twitter account and real life.
If he and Trump have one thing in common it's thin skin and being terminally online
things that happen on the internet are real. This is real life.
Reminder Elon cannot code
I'm not sure he can do anything well.
That's often the case with ~~CEOs~~ despots. They're more showmen/cheerleaders that people want to undress with their stonks. Otherwise, just talentless hacks that get paid too much money.
Except Nazi salutes. That arm thrust was chock full of intent and came straight from the heart!
It was the most awkward and embarrassing Nazi salute in the history of Nazi salutes. He didn't even do that well.
The irony of course being that actual Nazis wouldn't have liked him because he was South African. Him being white would probably be the minor mitigating factor but had they won their war he wouldn't have had a nice time.
came straight from the heart
Bullshit. You're telling me he has a heart?
Well not anymore, of course, as it went out to all his fellow Nazis
I love it when Nazi African fascists take control of the American monetary system.
How does he do this stuff? It's not like he's personally logging into the server and shutting down the website.
Presumably he just directs other people to do things.
If I was in the IT department I would already be looking for a new job, and I would just tell him that I'd done it, it's not like he's going to check. Although in this case it seems more a situation where he's just running his mouth.
If I was in the IT department I would be scrambling to get backups out the door to responsible parties
Lots of DR drills gonna be strained to their limits I’m betting
I'd bet good money he's never done his own taxes in his life
No, but he did do our taxes. Billionaires love government handouts after all.
Arrest his ass and lock him away for life!
Deport this asshole back to South Africa
Unfortunately, he's now an American citizen. Fortunately, we have treason charges for this kind of thing :).
But I thought Trump already got rid of birthright citizenship?
He doesn't have citizenship through birthright. That would be if his mom gave birth to him in the US while she lacked citizenship of her own, no? He just went through the standard naturalization process (allegedly)
He came here illegally under false pretenses meaning his citizenship can legally be nullified and expunged. To say nothing of the administration he supports trying to find ways to nullify citizenship of immigrants and natural born citizens who are and always have been here legally.
Used free file myself and it works great, if you haven't filed your taxes yet this year better do it fast before the site gets taken down!
Why on Earth would the US government want it to be difficult for its citizens to file taxes. Surely they want the taxes.
The complicated system means that there are lots of legal loopholes for wealthy people who can afford accountants. The billionaire I knew had it down exactly he how much he needed to to give to a charity, how to play games with moving money between family members…
On the other hand, because it is so complicated, lower class people working multiple shit jobs have to run through hoops and thus probably don’t get the refunds they’ve earned.
Stop assuming they actually mean well.
For most middle and low income families 'filing taxes' is how they get the amount they overpaid returned. If they cannot then the government keeps the extra.
Because Quickbooks and TurboTax or whatever wouldn’t be able to charge you out the ass
This pretty much. The IRS already knows how much you've paid them and can easily calculate how much you probably owe - they could easily switch to a system where they just send you a check/bill at the end of the year depending on the balance and that you only would have to file if you have a special tax situation, but they won't as long as tax filing is an industry.
Really increasing efficiency there. You know... efficiency aside, making it easier to file taxes is one of the very few things that can actually make more money!
A right-wing MAGA influencer called the "direct file" tax program a "far left /.../
Here in Estonia, the castle of "far left" in Europe (shh, don't spoil the joke, comrades, we want them to think we're dark red here ;) )...
...for something like 15 years already, you file your taxes like this:
It typically takes about 15 minutes.
If it's a bad year and the automatically filled declaration was incorrect, things will differ of course - then you wait until next winter for a court to resolve the dispute. If you can write a complaint in legalese, it costs about 20 €, but if you need a lawyer, you shell out real money. I've had a bad year once. Most people never have one.
It's basically the same thing in Sweden, but in the rare chance that the tax agency makes a mistake, it's usually resolved before summertime without any court issues.
There's a term for this: entrapment.