US citizens: call on Congress to permit the IRS to run its own online service for filing your tax returns.

My view of this issue is fundamentally different from that of the petition. When it says "free", it means "gratis". I don't care whether I pay a small fee for using some computing system to report my tax information. What matters to me is whether I have to run any nonfree software, and whether I have to show any personal data to a company.

This is not the typical kind of anonymity issue, because my tax return data must, of course, go to the IRS. That's the point of it. But there is no reason any company should get to see it.

However, if the petition convinces Congress, and if the IRS runs its own server for filing tax returns, the task of making it freedom-respecting will become much smaller.

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