While the IRS Direct File program has been shut down, there are still ways to file your taxes for free. Here's what to know.

In 2025, nearly 300,000 Americans used a new electronic system to file their taxes directly with the IRS for free. In 2026, ...

The IRS Direct File tool won't be available for the upcoming tax filing season. Here are a few free resources if you want help filing your taxes.

A recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal suggested that e-filing could leave taxpayers vulnerable to cyberattacks and IRS penalties. Don’t let these arguments scare you. E-filing is still the ...

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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 ...

To prepare the system for the upcoming filing season, the IRS Business Modernized e-File system will partially and temporarily shut down just before the end of the year. Processing Content Shutdown ...

The Eleventh Circuit held that the holding in Boyle, 469 U.S. 241 (1985), that a taxpayer who relies on an agent to paper-file a return lacks reasonable cause for the agent’s failure to file the ...