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Why are these restrictions in place?
by underyx 1y ago
Why are these restrictions in place?
- dmoy 1y agoEyeballing it, I bet those specific restrictions are in place because: $168.6k is suspiciously the same as the (2024) social security cap, so they probably didn't handle that edge case. $250k is the start of NIIT, so they probably didn't handle that case either.
- underyx 1y agoThanks for the actual answer!
- unsnap_biceps 1y agoTax industry lobbyists
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- jljljl 1y agoDirect File was rolled out gradually as a pilot program. It was also only available for taxpayers in 12 states. My guess: since the tax code is so complicated, they probably wanted to support the simplest and most common filing cases in the first release. Handling all the edge cases would delay the launch, and prevent them from collecting feedback. If the feedback and demand was positive for v1, they could expand the surface area in the future. Unfortunately, it didn't last long enough
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoAssuming I am reading this Census table correctly, 2023 Table A-2 [0] says 76% of the US has a household income under $150k. So as an initial deployment, covering 3/4 of the country as the first filter is not terrible. [0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2024/demo/income-poverty/p60-282.html https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2024/demo/income-poverty/...