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Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted

Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted

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·June 30, 2025

the IRS recently open sourced most of Direct File, a tax tool it has been working on for a few years now. unfortunately, due to recent events, the IRS isn't working on it anymore. I decided to pick up where they left off and I'm trying to get it ready for next tax season

the work behind Direct File is really interesting and I made a lot of it available online to read as well - https://docs.openfile.tax/en/latest/

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nxobject

Thanks so much for keeping this going, and for the late 18F for open-sourcing these implementations... I hope there's a way we can institutionalize your efforts.

As a side note, when the documentation page is viewed in a dark mode browser, I see black text on black background (https://docs.openfile.tax/en/latest/).

elijahwright_

I'll fix the docs today, thanks

McAlpine5892

Thank you for your work