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Geez. first the vaccine mandate forcing a citizen to choose between their job and the jab, now the IRS will require retina scans to access IRS online accts. Sure! Govt at its finest.
You're apparently unaware of how many scammers hijack your tax return, grab the refund and run.
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Perhaps the solution to that is very long prison sentences for those who do those crimes and beefed up enforcement.
But it seems the feds are focused on cracking down on gig people who hustle for a few extra bucks a year and subjecting all Americans to facial scans which violate our civil liberties.
Or better yet. Let's revisit simplifying taxes so they can be done on a post card as was promised a few years back. Too many are making money off this overly complicated tax system and needs to end.
But yet people are more than willing to give the Federal Government more and more power over their lives in the name of progress. And who are they accountable to? No one.
Citizens are too frightened to stand up and do anything about it...if they even attempt such a thing, they are labelled 'domestic terrorists'...but American citizens DO have the ability to remove a govt from power completely, they just have to exercise that right.
For a long time now, the US govt has been more interested in protecting itself, rather than the country as a whole...when they say "national security"...(that really refers to security of the Govt, not the country)...
Our govt has tightly restricted citizens from owning full automatic firearms...but if a citizen breaks a major law, they can bet the Govt will use full auto weapons to capture and arrest them!
You're apparently unaware of how many scammers hijack your tax return, grab the refund and run.
Lucky for me I typically owe 3-5k a year so unfortunately no takers on paying that for me lmao.
Im not unaware at all but using a private company to vouch for your identity to the federal govt is bizarre. Private companies get hacked. The feds are the ones that issue passports that prove you are a citizen! No Real ID required. So The feds cant prove to themselves that the filer is who they say they are? One computer not talking to another computer? Gee then we have other online tax software by private companies that can also be hacked. Just bizarre by the govt.
.... Or better yet. Let's revisit simplifying taxes so they can be done on a post card as was promised a few years back. Too many are making money off this overly complicated tax system and needs to end.
Or go one step further and replace all federal taxes with a federal consumption tax, aka The Fair Tax. Then even the IRS itself is eliminated.
Im not unaware at all but using a private company to vouch for your identity to the federal govt is bizarre. Private companies get hacked. The feds are the ones that issue passports that prove you are a citizen! No Real ID required. So The feds cant prove to themselves that the filer is who they say they are? One computer not talking to another computer? Gee then we have other online tax software by private companies that can also be hacked. Just bizarre by the govt.
Your concern of a private company being subject to hacking is not the same as the original concern expressed by the OP. That's a legitimate concern.
But in response to the fact the IRS would require a photo to prove ID -- this is not a new concept to govt.....
??? I would not be surprised to find out that the FEDS do in fact contract out the actual procedure of putting together the passport to private companies. There are thousands of private companies that are contracted by the federal, state and local government to handle what we would think as 'sensitive' material.
Only time my taxes got hacked -- here in South Carolina at the state level -- not by the private company I use to do my taxes.
Im not unaware at all but using a private company to vouch for your identity to the federal govt is bizarre. Private companies get hacked. The feds are the ones that issue passports that prove you are a citizen! No Real ID required. So The feds cant prove to themselves that the filer is who they say they are? One computer not talking to another computer? Gee then we have other online tax software by private companies that can also be hacked. Just bizarre by the govt.
'REAL IDs' are a joke now, they have already been faked!
Over the summer, someone went into the DMV after hours and stole the REAL ID printer machine, they were covered head to toe in the video surv...can you imagine what that printer is worth on the street?!! WOW. They never did find the guy or recover the machine, so the 'integrity/security' of REAL IDs just went up in smoke.
'REAL IDs' are a joke now, they have already been faked!
Over the summer, someone went into the DMV after hours and stole the REAL ID printer machine, they were covered head to toe in the video surv...can you imagine what that printer is worth on the street?!! WOW. They never did find the guy or recover the machine, so the 'integrity/security' of REAL IDs just went up in smoke.
How does one machine in one state make real ID’s go up in smoke?
You're apparently unaware of how many scammers hijack your tax return, grab the refund and run.
Lucky for me I typically owe 3-5k a year so unfortunately no takers on paying that for me lmao.
That's me, too. I always structure my quarterly estimates so that I'm underpaid by about $1,000 or so at tax filing time. There's never any refund to steal.
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I always structure my quarterly estimates so that I'm underpaid by about $1,000 or so at tax filing time. There's never any refund to steal.
