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by wmf 1605 days ago
The IRS is facing massive online fraud and their budget probably doesn't allow internal development of... anything.
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I would love to see how much this system actually costs taxpayers and how much it saves in fraud. Knowing a bit about both of these, I suspect it's lopsided in a bad way.
You have a point, but there are also second-order effects of letting fraud run wild.