IRS and Tax Filing Issues
in Business, Accounting & Taxes ·
Zachary White19 said:From what I can gather, the IRS.gov system is basically there to verify all the data coming back from the transaction... since the SSN is generated locally on your own computer while the JIRA comes straight from the IRS servers. Depending on which software you're running, you might not even need that certificate because some programs don't bother checking it at all...
Yeah, the whole situation is just incredibly cryptic; you can't find anything concrete on the IRS websites, and even the software devs seem pretty clueless about it all. Some people are claiming it depends on which software platform you're using, while others are saying this is just some test certificate that’s supposed to turn into a live one early in 2017... blah, blah, blah. Basically, if we see a mountain of receipts piling up at the registers on November 11th without any JIRA attached, then it's obvious something went sideways with the certificates, so I'm just waiting until the morning of the 11th to see where I stand, and I'm definitely not installing this new certificate until then.
P.S. S. guessing there's going to be some major shake-up early next year because of certain interest groups tied to specific types of fiscalization software.