Tax Liberation

Current initiatives

1. Reference: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/call-on-the-irs-to-provide-libre-tax-filing-software

Summary: US taxpayers: Tell the IRS that you want to file your taxes in freedom! For far too long, many US taxpayers have felt that they have no other option than to use nonfree software or a Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS), giving up their freedom as well as their most private financial information to a third-party company, in order to file taxes. Whether or not taxpayers were able to file their taxes gratis, they often had to give up their freedom in order to file. However, with the passage of the *Inflation Reduction Act*, now is the time to tell the IRS that what the public needs is a tax filing system in which every taxpayer can file their taxes entirely with free software. Read and share the article, sign the petition, and send a letter to the IRS commissioner.

Responses and conversations

News:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705469
• https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/25/2029224/fsf-calls-on-the-irs-to-provide-libre-tax-filing-software

Past LP wiki initiatives

1. Reference: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/FLCTPSP

Summary: Free/Libre Canadian Tax Preparation Software Project

Promising free software initiatives

Repositories:

• https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes (AGPL)

Successful resistance

Stories of resistance to nonfree software for tax-filing:

• http://libreboston.org/blog/do-not-use-turbotax