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Oh God, that's so fucking stupid.
Gotta keep the auditors busy!
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.
I know where you are coming from, but i can assure you the people who are being audited are being audited for a reason. Either it's claiming false dependents or credits they are not entitled to. I've seen people try to claim a $50000 refund but there income is only $5000. What happens is these people go to some random person on the street who says they can get them a bigger refund and they don't question it.
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.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/
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.
Believe it or not, there are people who aren't you who struggle with stuff.
Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you'll see what I mean.