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the IRS doesn't require IAL2 for other preparers, like TurboTax. Why would they impose it on themselves?
by xxpor 3y ago
the IRS doesn't require IAL2 for other preparers, like TurboTax. Why would they impose it on themselves?
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- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Why would they impose it on themselves? They’re a government agency. Especially for a voluntary pilot, it makes no sense to lower standards that way.
- xxpor 3y agoUnless you're trying to sabotage your pilot, there's no reason to turn people away with a dumb login. Again, they already accept efile from providers that do not follow these standards. There's 0 benefit to upping the requirements here.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> no reason to turn people away with a dumb login No evidence of this happening. If anything, the pilot is proving they made the right call. It’s doing well despite ID.me.
- sanderjd 3y agoDid you write this exactly backwards? Especially for a voluntary pilot, it makes sense to not wait to launch it until it is better than every other option in every way. That's a pretty big part of the whole "pilot" idea... that something is launched smaller and faster and then incrementally improved and expanded. It's a very good idea to do things in this way!
- PopAlongKid 3y agoTurboTax is not a "preparer", the preparer is the taxpayer themself. For paid, professional preparers (who don't use TurboTax, but rather commercially available software designed for practitioners who prepare dozens or hundreds of returns), the security requirements are higher, even if not quite IAL2. The IRS has worked for a number of years now on a "Security Summit" in concert with all the pro software vendors to tighten up their security, resulting in drastically less filing fraud than in previous years. By "filing fraud" I mean filing returns using a false identity, not simply reporting wrong income or deductions.