Oh God, that's so fucking stupid.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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Gotta keep the auditors busy!
since they are going after low level offenders. It is all the same under (minor adjustments) biden and trump. It’s Getting Worse: The IRS Now Audits Poor Americans at About the Same Rate as the Top 1% The wars will never end...neoliberalism lead to fascism and full blown imperialism
There are like 100 for the whole country. No one gets audited, statistically speaking. It's why you've never learned anything about taxes from your parents or friends. They don't know either. People pay people at HR block who don't know about taxes either to file. No one gets in trouble because the only people who know tax laws work for the very wealthy. Or at the IRS where there are about 100 of them to 300m of us.
The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.
If you can't afford a professional, these don't seem particularly unreasonable. I certain wouldn't recommend feeding all your info into chatgpt etc but for a simple filer, asking an LLM for explanations or possible deductions seems fine.
Not everyone has access to the same resources that I do, so I try to picture it from others perspectives.
If you can’t afford a professional, you are probably not in a place where you would have enough itemized deductions to match the standard deduction
Have fun with that audit.
Like I said, not everyone has the same resources I do...
But this doesn't seem worse than googling questions and not everyone can spend hours waiting to talk with the Irs/Cra etc.
It just seems that sometimes folks are so determined to be anti LLM that they refuse to see how it could ever help anyone.
"Googling" used to get you to the needed IRS documentation, but now, with the help of Gemini you're just being lied to.
If you need tax help, call your local library, they often have tax help. Also if it seems like a tax dodge, don't take the deduction. Don't outsource your brain to an LLM. You've done your taxes before without a GPT you can do it again.
Use FreeTaxUSA or OnLine Taxes. Much more affordable online tax tools.
its free under certain AGI, or if you make alot money, might want to consider other alternatives,.
yikes
Why are we filing and paying taxes anymore? They’ve stripped most things that help the common citizen including things like the SEC that allow the president to pump a stock ticker
Because my employer garnished my wages to pay taxes, and if I dont file my taxes, the federal will keep my refund.
oh gawd no
i saw on a sub someone used it, and it gave wrong info back.
Last year I asked the HR block ai chat bot thing a question and it got it wrong.
Good to see only 5 Americans are paying tax. That's a great way to protest misuse of tax dollars
I mean, a lot of tax stuff is automated. Mine are pretty straightforward so turboTax handles a huge chunk of the work...
Purpose-built tax software is not the same as the random word generator.