• doctortran@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Vote for people who will increase funding to the IRS so they can manage all this.

    The reason it’s been like this for so long is because they don’t have the manpower or (until recently) the technology to handle the sheer numbers. Lobbying from TurboTax and shit also played a big part, but even without that, they straight up can’t afford to do all this when they’ve been strangled of funding from decades of conservative legislation.

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      Yes but no. They have the numbers already reported to them for most of us. A proper database and front end would spit out the magic number. So it’s a one time project that they can’t fund because of lobbyists. Other countries have had this for decades.

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        As he said the it’s lacks the funding for those tools. The systems were developed in the 70s, developers are retiring and there are less and less people to handle it. I’m order to even do that for everyone the IRS needs an upgrade. I work with these systems everyday.