direct-file

The IRS open sourced their direct-file code after it got cut. IIRC similar work done there. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

Also, the IRS open source Direct File and their Fact Graph too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131901 https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f... The graph is xml.

The IRS Direct File was shut down by the current administration. And no, it was way more effort than what two interns could do. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

Unfortunately, the IRS built DirectFile to enable free filing and the current admin killed it. Maybe we’ll get it back in three years after regime change. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file <- Direct File's web app source code is public-domain and published on GitHub! Obviously the 2025 version will be out of date for the 2026 filing season, though public code means it can always be revived by anyone else. (previous HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131901 )

I'm actually quite surprized. From another article today, I discovered the IRS has a github repo with (what seems to be) XML versions of tax questions... surely some combination of LLM and structured data querying could solve this? https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main

They were rolling out a free service over the past few years that was getting solid reviews and plenty of people used[0][1]. One of the top priorities[2] of the Trump administration and DOGE was to prevent that and it has been since shut down[3] and partly open sourced[4]. 0: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24071005/irs-direct-file-... 1: https://www.investopedia.com/early-reaction-to-the-new-irs-f... 2: https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-musk-18f-6a4dc35a... 3:https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-... 4: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

specifically here https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f...

Look like many of them are specifically the xml files here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/e0d5c84451cc5...

I believe the actual IRS tax code implementation is in a separate repo here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file while the originally linked repo is the fact graph tooling decoupled from the tax implementation.

This was such a fun neat part of the Direct File code drop 5 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131901 In particular there's a pretty nice inline tutorial that's still there in that release: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

It's nice to see an open sourced implementation of the US tax code! This was part of the IRS Direct File codebase that allowed people to file their taxes for free, directly with the IRS. It was canceled earlier this year by the Trump administration. It looks like the Fact Graph was already opensourced a couple months ago and that version of the factgraph lives here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f... I'm curious why a second repository was created for this.

Some of the DirectFile code was published on GitHub. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

Its a custom license apparently, but its public domain for the US. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/LICENSE Was required to be open-sourced from the SHARE IT act. One of the most common-sense bills in a long time. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9566