I feel like my post yesterday spurred some good discussion but i got a lot of down votes which I didn't think you could do in this subreddit and a few people seemed upset whcih was never my intention.
So, I wanted to share some actually good news that's coming out of this administration.
Ever since Elon musk took over the IRS i've been hoping maybe something good would come out of it. I mean who doesn't hate the irs right?
anyway, filling my taxes has always been such a PITA (pain in the ass) and every year I have to pay out a bunch of money to HRblock just to be able to find out if I owed or coudl get a refund, but now that Elon is changing things, it was soo much easier!
In fact, I didn't even have to file anything this year. For the first time ever, I got a nice text message telling me what I owed and with a handy link to pay on line.
I thought that was pretty nifty on its own, but seeing as I don't have a credit card, i thought it might not work for me. Then i noticed the option that I could pay with Itunes Gift Cards, which you can just buy for cash at the local Kroger.
Anyway, I was able to pay my taxes basically in cash this year and I didn't even have to file. Hopefully, streamlining the gov't like they say they're doing will have some other good things come from it!
Has anyone else gotten the IRS text yet?
oh man can you believe it this guy is actually celebrating the fact that the irs is spying on us now and sending us text messages telling us what we owe thats not good news thats a total disaster and a huge invasion of our privacy and whats with the itunes gift cards thing thats just a way for the government to track our purchases and control our every move what makes you think the government is actually streamlining anything theyre just making it easier to control us and take our money
theyre just taking the guess work out of it for you! its not like they have access to your face book or anything. i feel like now that i paid I don't have to worry about what if I got it wrong and they tell me i owe more. i think giving up a little privacy isn't so bad if it makes life easier, but i can see both sides where it might not be a good thing for some of your data