Over 100,000 Americans filed their taxes using the IRS's free new program last year. Now, it's sticking around.

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The IRS' free tax filing program is in jeopardy as the agency faces continued cuts from the Trump administration. Funded under the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, the program has been heavily ...

(NEXSTAR) — Tax season is back again, which means it’s time to collect your W-2 and Form 1098, and Form 1099s and start filing. While there are a slew of tax services and professionals that can help ...

IRS Direct File, the nation's first free tax-filing system, was meant to ease the pain of complex filings. Employees who worked on it are worried that DOGE wants to kill the two-year-old program to ...

With the start of tax season approaching, Democratic and Republican lawmakers are split on the future of Direct File, the IRS' free tax filing program. The program has been controversial among ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — Tax season is back again, which ...

IRS Direct File open sourced as TurboTax lobbying and Trump bill threaten free tax filing future- The IRS just made a major move to protect its free tax filing software—Direct File—by releasing most ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar ...

Rumors of the demise of the free IRS tax filing software Direct File have been circulating since Tax Day 2025. On Monday, the IRS officially ended the program, at least for 2026. In a letter to 25 ...

The Internal Revenue Service has shut down its Direct File free tax-filing program, sending an email to the 25 states that offered it this year. The email was sent to the state departments of revenue ...