On 2026-01-26, Bigsy Bohr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-01-25, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sunday, January 25, 2026 12:37:15 PM Bigsy Bohr wrote: >>> I went to the IRS Free File page for this year (I'm very late to this >>> party, but whatever) and one of the sites is inaccessible from here >>> (France). >> >> Two things to be aware of: >> >> * I'm not clear on the details, but the capabilities or availability of >> the >> "real" free tax app is being restricted since Trump took office (and last >> year, >> iiuc (I didn't use it) it was restricted to 5 or so specific states). So, >> even if it was still available, you might not be able to use it if your >> residence is France. (By "real" I mean the one that the Irs STARTED TO ROLL >> out under Biden and is, afaik, not associated with any commercial tax >> preparer.) > > The one the IRS started to roll out under Biden has been discontinued.
I don't think this is a concern for anyone in this forum, but just in case it is, in order to reach FFFF from the Gallic region, where it is geo-blocked, I was obliged to create a Debian instance with one the Free Tier cloud providers (instance based in the US East Coast). Running Firefox through a manual, SOCKS v.5 proxy and ssh tunnel works without a hitch.
