>> LaManna noted that any taxpayer who does not want to use ID.me can opt agains...

monksy · on Jan 30, 2022

This is worse... they have accepted electronic returns. Now they're blocking that from happening with this third party service.

judge2020 · on Jan 30, 2022

ssa.gov supports id.me and login.gov[0] so I don't see why IRS couldn't rely on login.gov, which also does identity verification[1].

0: https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/ (gonna have to wait till tomorrow morning to see it, as it has hours of operation for some reason)

1: https://www.login.gov/help/verify-your-identity/how-to-verif...

treeman79 · on Jan 30, 2022

Last time I tried mailing in return I ended up sending it 3 times. They never got it. And I started getting scam calls where they had clearly gotten ahold of the missing returns.