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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It already has 4 PRs!

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nice! We need a Canadian fork