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Calling the irs could be free and simple (provided by fidelity or tdameritrade like private entities), but irs employees lobby against it. Instead you get to w
by naveen99 5y ago
Calling the irs could be free and simple (provided by fidelity or tdameritrade like private entities), but irs employees lobby against it. Instead you get to wait for hours on the phone and call back the next day to do it all over again.
- netizen-936824 5y agoHasn't the IRS been facing a ton of budget cuts lately?
- Rebelgecko 5y agoDepends on what you mean by lately. They received modest budget increases in 2020 and 2021. However, after taking inflation into account, they lost like 20% of their budget in the 2010s. If the current FY22 budget passes their funding will go back to just a smidge below the 2010 level.
- olliej 5y agoYup, especially the enforcement arms. Despite dollar for dollar being the most effective anti crime spending.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoThe proposal provided here is essentially to give up millions of citizens private information for the benefit of for-profit companies for some better UX. It seems like we could alternatively just improve the government service for better UX instead.
- naveen99 5y agoi don't know what information is private for millions of citizens. Practically all citizens have retirement and non retirement brokerage accounts with private companies. Between the credit agencies, credit card companies, banks, brokerages, facebook, google... better UX is a good thing. if government could just provide better ux, we could all be living in a marxist utopia.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoA lot of European countries have great UX from the government on this specific matter. Whether or not you classify them as "marxist utopias" is an exercise for the reader.