<story><title>IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I meat this is Y Combinator Hacker News, so I would expect &amp;quot;software engineers in California&amp;quot; to be a significant fraction of the user base here.</text></item><item><author>dmd</author><text>94% of Americans make less than $200k a year. Not everything is meant for &amp;quot;software engineers in California&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>sigh this is a baby step but&lt;p&gt;- Many if not most software engineers in California earn more than the $200K household limitation for using Direct File&lt;p&gt;- From my understanding there is no way auto-generate my state tax return from Direct File so I would have to do all the work twice even if I can use it&lt;p&gt;- Complicating my tax situation (legally) allows me to save more money, I would save far more than the price of TurboTax by using TurboTax instead of Direct File, as much as I hate it</text></item><item><author>macrael</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s SUCH a win that they managed to roll this out to a small set of tax situations and states to start. Every government project I&amp;#x27;ve been on has required creativity in defining an MVP that doesn&amp;#x27;t include shipping to everyone. This was cited consistently as one of the great successes of this project, they were able to ship something that successfully filed 150k taxes b&amp;#x2F;c they were able to scope things down to something doable in 9 months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cududa</author><text>The problem is you&amp;#x27;re exposing yourself as someone extremely self-centered, and someone that assumes their lived experience is equivalent of everyone else&amp;#x27;s, and adjudicating the utility of this particular thing as if you are reflective of the larger population.&lt;p&gt;Saying the majority of engineers in California make at least $200k makes you even more out of touch. According to Glassdoor, over $200k for a SE in CA is 90th percentile. The average SE in CA makes $132,000&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ziprecruiter.com&amp;#x2F;Salaries&amp;#x2F;Software-Engineer-Salary--in-California&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ziprecruiter.com&amp;#x2F;Salaries&amp;#x2F;Software-Engineer-Sala...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>IRS Direct File to open to all 50 states and D.C. for 2025 tax season</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I meat this is Y Combinator Hacker News, so I would expect &amp;quot;software engineers in California&amp;quot; to be a significant fraction of the user base here.</text></item><item><author>dmd</author><text>94% of Americans make less than $200k a year. Not everything is meant for &amp;quot;software engineers in California&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>sigh this is a baby step but&lt;p&gt;- Many if not most software engineers in California earn more than the $200K household limitation for using Direct File&lt;p&gt;- From my understanding there is no way auto-generate my state tax return from Direct File so I would have to do all the work twice even if I can use it&lt;p&gt;- Complicating my tax situation (legally) allows me to save more money, I would save far more than the price of TurboTax by using TurboTax instead of Direct File, as much as I hate it</text></item><item><author>macrael</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s SUCH a win that they managed to roll this out to a small set of tax situations and states to start. Every government project I&amp;#x27;ve been on has required creativity in defining an MVP that doesn&amp;#x27;t include shipping to everyone. This was cited consistently as one of the great successes of this project, they were able to ship something that successfully filed 150k taxes b&amp;#x2F;c they were able to scope things down to something doable in 9 months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohashi</author><text>Some people have a broader view of the world and care about things which might not directly impact them</text></comment>