Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online

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.

According to Forbes, the only thing he actually deleted was the 18F's (group that created Direct File) Xitter account. Lol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2025/02/04/irs-direct-file-still-working-this-tax-season-despite-musks-comments/

Really Musky of him to confuse the 2

I love it when Nazi African fascists take control of the American monetary system.

I think I'll skip paying taxes this year, my religion states I cannot support terrorist groups.

Arrest his ass and lock him away for life!

His statement came in response to a right-wing influencer criticizing the program as government overreach.

... HOW????? This movement simply has no real agenda or philosophy - they just want to burn everything down.

Deport this asshole back to South Africa

You'd think that if DOGE was really DOGE that this is the exact kind of thing they'd double down on and make really good, saving everyone shit load of money.

The sooner average Americans realize that these people are America's enemies, the sooner we can do something about it.

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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:

• some day in February, your internet bank reminds you to send a report to the tax office
• you click "send"
• some day in February, you read in a newspaper that "you can file your taxes now"
• you open up emta.ee, log in with your ID card, and see a pre-filled declaration
• if you're lucky (99% are), it's been filled correctly and you click "confirm", otherwise you click "edit"
• you get to see if you have returns or need to pay extra
• if you have returns, you can choose if you want the money (typically if it's big, you do) or want to donate the small change to a non-profit

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.

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!

Cruelty is the point. The goal is to make the lives of impoverished people harder.

I'd bet good money he's never done his own taxes in his life

In Denmark We've had easy tax filing on the Internet for more than a decade, and before that it was also extremely easy, as we got a form with all the usual data filled out, and we only had to send in if we had changes. I haven't done my taxes for 30 years!!!
Except when we bought a house we've had a few tax deductions on energy saving changes, which took 2 minutes to enter.

Every piece of standard information is collected automatically, like wages, bank info, stock profits, real estate taxes, and the rest if you have anything additional is super easy to fill out. The old paper tax return form is AFAIK completely abandoned since more than a decade ago.

USA under Trump with Elron Musk making it even worse is what we would call working like monkeys in a cage. If they really end this program, it makes it more difficult to do your taxes, AND cost tax payers MORE!!

Man who pays someone else to do his taxes makes it harder for people who do their own taxes because he doesn't seem to understand how annoying and frustratingly difficult it is to file in USA

Nothing makes the government more efficient than cleaning house on the group responsible for bringing money into the government and which has an ROI of 5.

There's a term for this: entrapment.

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!

Oh man.

In Germany this would mean dismantling the only functioning digital government service. Haha.

"Elon Musk claimed on X that he eliminated the IRS team responsible for the "Direct File" program, which allows Americans to file taxes online for free"

"However, the Treasury Department confirms that the Direct File system remains active, offering free tax filing with customer support"

Big story. Is every tweet going to be a shocking story? Isn't that beneficial to the media who done nothing / helped install theese morons?

https://www.irs.gov/forms-instructions

Read the instructions, download what you need, print it out, fill it out, and mail it in.

I really don't know why, but every time I see Space Karen trying to be such a sooper kewl edgelord, I think of this clip...that and the very end of the movie, too....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjTjfipDto

Cool so I'm not doing my taxes again this year

Wow! Holy shit!

That's fine. I wasn't planning to pay taxes to a fascist government anyway.