Tax Brain diverts funds into the wrong bank.

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

@TW about printing and sending snail mail? It is a paper with my information on it that will eventually be sent to a processing center where people on ' get back to work' programs are purging IRS paper files to put them on microfilm ANYWAY so to me this cuts down on that middleman.

The reason why a tax program goes through their server - not the IRS - is because the IRS data is confidential. If you snail mail the form, only IRS people (or their contractors) handle it. And a data transporter - USPS - does not view or own the data. Therefore it is (should be) confidential.

For example, who owns your e-mail? If through the company server, then the company owns it. You have no secrets. To further understand the problem, see another discussion about Net Neutrality - the difference between a data transporter and data provider:
The internet is over!
Another aspect of what I believe has yet to be properly answered at the highest levels of government - who owns what data. A discussion this nation really has not yet taken seriously. By their actions, Comcast may become riled in that controversy.

To have access to your IRS information, it must go through their server. A form submitted to the IRS only goes on IRS equipment.