The IRS debuted Direct File — which enabled taxpayers to file online with the agency for free — as a pilot in 2024 and it ...

Direct File was "problematic" from the start, David Williams, president of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, which describes itself as a nonpartisan organization that disseminates research and ...

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) is celebrating the House-passed bill that would shut down the Internal Revenue Service Direct File ...

Learn what IRS Direct File is, how to handle Notice CP59, and if there’s a real $500 IRS refund in 2025, including key filing ...

IRS could cut up to 40% of its workforce, internal memo indicates 00:33. Data shows the IRS' Direct File free tax-filing tool has helped save taxpayers money.

How Direct File did. Big picture, 296,531 people successfully submitted an accepted tax return this year using Direct File, which the IRS spent $41 million on this filing season.

With its Direct File program, the IRS tried to give U.S. taxpayers a free solution to a longstanding complaint: that tax prep is too expensive.. Created by the Inflation Reduction Act, Direct File ...

Direct File was first rolled out by the IRS in 2024 in 12 states as a service allowing taxpayers to file their annual returns directly to the agency for free.

Direct File joined a range of other free tax-preparation options, including IRS Free File, a partnership with software companies open to people making up to $84,000 this year.

Millions of taxpayers can file for free this year using the IRS' Direct File system. Launched by the agency as a pilot program in 12 states, Direct File processed approximately 140,000 returns in ...