Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

&gt; Next week, DOGE and IRS leadership are expected to host dozens of engineers in DC so they can begin “ripping up the old systems” and building the API, an IRS engineering source tells WIRED. The goal is to have this task completed within 30 days. Sources say there have been multiple discussions about involving third-party cloud and software providers like Palantir in the implementation.<p>Well yeah, obviously bring in Palantir. 10x the headcount so they can have the task completed in <i>3 days</i>.

I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.

I imagine this will make the &quot;information wants to be free&quot; people happy but, as I am not one of them, jesus christ. These are not serious people.

Ah, more bright ideas by people who have zero idea how the system they are destroying works.

I would like to protest my assignment to this timeline.

It&#x27;s a shame this is what&#x27;s happening instead of:<p>Substantive tax reform<p>Thorough tax enforcement<p>Making all tax filings public

&quot;We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren&#x27;t working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off.&quot;

If this was done two years ago HN would be talking about how great it is.

They might be flying too close to the sun on this one. A lot of the IRS&#x27; &quot;inefficiency&quot; is intentional, so it can be abused by moneyed interests to evade tax without anyone noticing.<p>Fixing those inefficiencies would bring this problem to light and force them to deal with it. While it&#x27;s not past the current administration to formally legalize it, it&#x27;s still &quot;stirring shit&quot; for no good reason and worse than leaving things as-is where the evasion falls through the cracks.