Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online

[D. Spaulding]

What the absolute fuck?! Why are we allowing this? I've used this in the past and it's very helpful.

[Lovie777]

1. That's not his call..

Please arrest him.

[dalton99a]

12. +1. The asshole is a traitor and saboteur.

[BigDemVoter]

58. His ass ought to be shipped back to South Africa,

although I sincerely doubt they want him there either.

[Attilatheblond]

53. Yep. Send in the US Marshals

and scare the crap out of those naive, and possibly drugged out, young hackers he has with him

[Blue_Roses]

2. What???

[Shellback Squid]

3. link?

[bronxiteforever]

4. Link and source?

[D. Spaulding]

13. Here's the link

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-irs-easy-filing/

[bronxiteforever]

16. Thank you!

[ancianita]

32. Better if folks put links in OP's. Links matter.

Also the service can be re-installed when enough people start filing for extensions -- because they've lost jobs and gained higher costs of living such that they can't afford to pay taxes.

This, too, will backfire.

More on Free File a widely used and well liked IRS program.

[littlemissmartypants]

45. Not good for me. 🤷‍♀️

[ShazzieB]

67. Thanks!

Here's an interesting tidbit from that link:

Legal analyst Allison Gill's "Mueller, She Wrote" said she spoke with someone at the IRS about the matter.

They "just told me they were informed that if they accepted the Fork in the Road deferred resignation, they'd still have to work through May 15th because it's filing season. So Musk lied. And what about filing season 2026? Are they just gonna cross that bridge when they come to it?"

So it sounds like this may be a false alarm, at least where filing taxes for 2024 is concerned?

I swear, the worst thing about this whole Trumpnado that's hit Washington is that it's so hard to get accurate information or know who to believe about anything!

[Irish_Dem]

5. All federal communication must go through a Musk company?

For a price of course.

[Quiet Em]

6. This is outrageous.

This is going to piss a lot of people off.

[senseandsensibility]

7. This was Elizabeth Warren's bill

I am sure we will hear from her.

[themaguffin]

8. The GOP has been trying to do that because Turbo Tax etc want the money.

[mitch96]

23. Yup, follow the money...TTax was pissed..nt

[D. Spaulding]

9. Here's the link;

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-irs-easy-filing/

[Mosby]

49. Thats just a link to comments.

Where is the article?

[muriel_volestrangler]

63. It's an article. Here's King Elon's tweet, linked in the article, if you'd rather have that:

Link to tweet

[Mosby]

66. Thx. nt

[John1956PA]

10. He probably wants us all to use an X filing app.

ON EDIT: I think there is a difference between Direct File (which was launched as a pilot program in 2024 and reached taxpayers in only twelve states) and other IRS-endorsed Free File electronic services which have been in place for years.

Just a few weeks ago, the IRS announced that it was expanding Direct File so that it would be serving taxpayers in 25 states. Some Republican lawmakers have been critical of Direct File ever since it came into existence in January 2024.

[Wiz Imp]

44. Story from a week ago

https://www.investopedia.com/your-tax-filing-could-be-free-if-musk-s-doge-commission-gets-its-way-8774751
Your Tax Filing Could Be Free if Musk’s DOGE Commission Gets Its Way

Leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), now officially under the United States Digital Services, Elon Musk has promoted the creation of a mobile app for Americans to file their taxes for free. This would add to the options the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already offers for free tax filing.

What Musk’s DOGE Commission Is Considering
During a November DOGE meeting, The Washington Post reported that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who has since parted ways with the DOGE efforts, discussed the possibility of creating a mobile app so Americans could file their federal taxes for free. Musk posted on X in November about his desire to simplify the tax code, so this would be a step in that direction.

However, that’s easier said than done. The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) consists of more than 4 million words, so creating an app that not only encompasses the entire code but also calculates taxes based on the code is quite an undertaking.

What Are Taxpayers' Options for Tax Preparation?
Currently, taxpayers have three primary ways of filing taxes: do-it-yourself (DIY), using tax software or hiring a CPA.

This story says it would add it existing options, not replace anything,

[dalton99a]

11. Who made this asshole Supreme Ruler of the United States?

[Justice matters.]

54. The immune convicted felon and extortionist in chief. nt

[Skittles]

68. MUSK BOUGHT A US PRESIDENT

THAT IS WHO

[Mike 03]

14. Gee, you'd almost wonder if some hostile forces had gained

access to the highest offices in our land and set out to wage war on the American people.

[tanyev]

34. Jan. 6th never really ended.

They just regrouped and sent in Elon instead.

[Progressive dog]

15. It seems to be still on the IRS site/

[bronxiteforever]

17. Who is the Secretary the Treasury?

This is so screwed up it is actually mind boggling. It looks like we have a Shadow Treasury run by a man not confirmed by the Senate who is a notorious drug user.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

18. Wow. I just filed mine yesterday using freetaxusa.

[luckykate54]

73. I got my refund yesterday. I used TaxSlayer for free. Musk go to hell!

[Silent Type]

19. Well, the Free File website is still running. You'd think a tech guy would pull website plug.

[John1956PA]

20. I think Free File is different from Direct File. nt

[Silent Type]

22. Direct File is up too. Here's link.

https://www.irs.gov/filing/irs-direct-file-for-free

[Initech]

21. Can we please strap him into one of his shitty Space X rockets and hurl him into the sun already?

I think America and the rest of the world would be OK with this!

[Justice matters.]

55. Let's remain humane and send him to Mars instead. nt

[Initech]

62. Make it a one way trip!

[Meowmee]

24. Is anyone going to throw his *** in jail for these illegal acts?

[The Wandering Harper]

25. "you will be deleted"

[valleyrogue]

26. The more this goes on, the more I am absolutely convinced Trump did NOT win the election.

You know Musk, Thiel, and the rest of the tech goons manipulated things.

WHY didn't the Trump campaign have any kind of ground game? It couldn't all be social media.

[John1956PA]

29. Here in Western PA, T's mules disseminated a million yard signs in the final weeks.

I think the signs and the mules were paid for by undocumented money, probably much of it coming indirectly from Putin.

Low information voters here are predisposed to believing the lies which appeared on T's yard signs. A bandwagon mentality caught on. I think the strategy was a well-planned part of the opposition's late-stage ground game here.

[yellow dahlia]

59. Here is some data.

https://www.thenumbersarewrong2024.com/

[Wicked Blue]

27. Should we pay taxes?

I'm reluctant to pay money to subsidize the illegitimate new czar of the US.

[defacto7]

46. I don't think anyone knows where the money would end up. n/t

[Mosby]

50. You don't think he won the election?

What happened do you think?

[yellow dahlia]

60. Some data

https://www.thenumbersarewrong2024.com/

[GardenGnome]

30. The phrase running amok...

...can now be replaced with running amusk.

[niyad]

33. exactly!!!

[niyad]

31. May he, and every one of hiis enablers and supporters, receive everything

they deserve.

[Prairie Gates]

35. Literally the only thing the IRS has done that people like

Smooth.

Of course, this is some pay-to-play bribe service to Turbo Tax and the rest of the filing industry. Why should government do it for free when Turbo Tax can soak you?

[jmowreader]

36. Deleting Elon Musk sounds like a good idea right now

And while deleting him by chucking him off the side of the George Washington Bridge SOUNDS like a good idea at the time, it'd be more efficient to just revoke his naturalization since he was an illegal immigrant and ship him back to South Africa. Preferably in a crate on a cargo ship.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. He had to have lied on his

application for citizenship, the penalty mandating deportation and even no Visa Privilege to ever even enter the U.S again......
(He can always run back to his bestest buddy, Putin, who is his true boss, and hang out in Russia)

Melania did the same thing, so goodbye goodbye to her also..............

[DENVERPOPS]

37. It is in preparation

for them disbanding the IRS for the "External Revenue Service", which will basically cause the firing of everyone presently employed by the IRS.....

Trickle Down Economics on Steroids, where no one earning, or having a net worth over a billion will even be taxed......

[TommieMommy]

38. How the hell can he do that😡 we are living in an insane world

[Oneironaut]

39. Because Turbo Tax and H&R Block have a big say in Government Tax activities, and, lobby to make their services mandatory

That's the whole purpose. It's blatant corruption.

[StarryNite]

41. What does that POS care, he doesn't even pay taxes!

Taxes are for the little people, dontcha know.

[allegorical oracle]

43. Not sure which POS you're referring to, but does Muck pay taxes? (We know The

Godfather hasn't for years.)

[Justice matters.]

56. He claimed on his $WASTi x he payed $11 billions.

11no11evidence11provided11of11course11

[littlemissmartypants]

47. Not for me. My links all work. More misinformation.

Sad.

[muriel_volestrangler]

70. Stop this. It's not "misinformation". We've given you the article, the tweet.

Looks, here's the tweet again:

Link to tweet

Was that "your link"? Does it work for you?

[littlemissmartypants]

71. My free tax log-in service...

... for the IRS is perfectly functional for me.

So, for me, the information shared is inaccurate and needlessly influenced personal anxiety.

If information is inaccurate and shared, it most certainly is misinformation.

If misinformation is shared repeatedly and deliberately, it's disinformation.

I am being accurate and very generous in using the misinformation label in this instance.

Furthermore, I felt obligated to share my alternative experience for the benefit of others.

PS: I am rarely if ever influenced by indiscreet pedantic finger wagging.

[muriel_volestrangler]

72. "easy filing team". That's what the OP says.

It does not say the facility has been deleted. It says, and the article is also clear, that the *team* was, according to Musk (again, "Musk says..." ) "deleted".

The OP information is not "inaccurate". You're just misreading it. You are not being accurate. And the "pedantic finger wagging" comes from you, so consider if others will be influenced by it, if you're not.

[Mosby]

51. I think this OP may be incorrect.

Found it. Click bait from Raw Story.

[wcmagumba]

52. No he didn't, liar liar your spaceship's on fire....

Edit: And cars too....

[lamp_shade]

57. I filed today. IRS has accepted.

[Daleuhlmann]

61. Musk's Tampering with Those Files Is Indefensiible!

Musk had no right or authority to unilaterally delete an easy and time and money-saving saving option for taxpayers. He obviously wants us to pay big tax preparation firms like H & R Block instead, probably because he has stock in those companies and they employ his rich friends.

[Cheeto Jesus]

64. I'm afraid he will just delete the IRS all together.

This is seriously a constitutional crisis.

[Cheeto Jesus]

65. I'm afraid he will delete the IRS all together.

This is seriously a constitutional crisis.

[wishstar]

69. The program is still working but the liar is sowing chaos and distrust of our govt

According to numerous media reports he actually did make that claim but all evidence so far is that the IRS is still processing those returns. The nut is gleefully spewing lies and misinformation about all of our government agencies and their functions to justify and influence Americans to support their efforts to dismantle and defund as much as possible.

[Beringia]

74. EzTaxReturn is still running

https://www.eztaxreturn.com/