The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has confirmed that Direct File will not be available for Filing Season 2026, and no launch date has been set. The suspension eliminates the federal free filing ...

A direct path to the IRS threatened a powerful player in tax prep. Now the project is gone. The Watchdog explains how—and why ...

The IRS urges taxpayers to get organized now to take advantage of changes under OBBBA that could impact tax deductions and ...

The Trump Administration announced it is ending the IRS’s free tax filing program, Direct File, even though independent ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS have announced that the number of states offering Direct File will double in Filing Season 2025—to 24. The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS ...

The IRS said it will begin accepting tax returns on Jan. 27, although it also opened its Free File service on Jan. 10. The ...

The IRS Direct File program has been under fire from Republicans in Congress since it began. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act didn’t get rid of it, despite language in the House version. Still, the ...

After weeks of testing, the Internal Revenue Service's free electronic tax-filing system finally launched Tuesday for taxpayers in 12 states. The new system, called Direct File, in-house online filing ...

Beginning in 2024, businesses must e-file Forms W-2 and other information returns if the total number is 10 or more. Do you e-file your W-2s and 1099s? You might have to start, thanks to the new IRS e ...

The Internal Revenue Service is urging Americans to begin preparing now for the 2026 tax filing season, warning that changes under the newly enacted “One Big Beautiful Bill” will affect deductions, ...

The most recent tax filing data still shows a dip in tax returns received compared to the prior year. The IRS received 54,030,000 individual income tax returns as of March 1, 2024, a 1.7% decline from ...

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