Lodge Your Tax Return with Paper Forms

 With tax time approaching for Americans, and I filed my IRS 1040 and other forms yesterday, my advice is to use paper forms and not electronic lodgment.  Here is why.  When Musk gets read/write access it means he will have direct control over each and every record in the IRS databases.  This includes the forms you filed.  Normally, staff go through programs that bring up one person at a time and changes or additions are made.  When you press Save there is an audit trail that says that at 02/20/2025 14:36.44 operator 1234 Added Marc Breault’s 1040 form.  At 02/20/2025 a4:36.59 operator 1234 added Marc Breault’s 2555 form.  In this instance, the operator is probably a scanning system.  In the case of a modification, the same thing happens but each field change is recorded.

 

With direct read/write access to the database, all that auditing disappears.  Changes can be made directly to the data itself.  For example, Musk can change what I declared.  When I lodged electronically, I might have declared X as my taxable income.  But they can change it to X/3 and then scream what a tax cheat I am.  The audit trail has disappeared.  With this access Musk can extort any judge, member of congress, or you and me.  If you lodge by paper forms, keep a copy and get it certified if you can because that could be your only recourse.

 

Of course, I’m too unimportant for Musk to take note of me, but you never know.  Read/write access is unheard of, and America has taken its first major step toward an American Gestapo, a police state that can alter records and punish you simply for opposing them.