Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's coming back this year to more than twice as many states — including Florida again — with a wider range of eligible tax ...

The IRS free tax filing program, known as Direct File, has faced heavy Republican scrutiny since its 2024 launch. Direct File expanded to more than 30 million taxpayers across 25 states for the 2025 ...

Starting Monday, qualified Idahoans will be able to start filing their 2024 tax returns directly with the IRS. After opting into the free tax filing program for this tax season, the Gem State will be ...

FILE - This March 22, 2013, file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans 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 ...

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Media reports on the IRS’s Direct File pilot program tend to repeat a few key talking points: claiming that the program is “free,” widely accessible, and popular with taxpayers. But these misleadingly ...

With two weeks until the 2024 tax deadline, only around 50,000 people have used the IRS’s new direct file online filing system, a number well shy of the hundreds of thousands the agency anticipated ...

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been expanding. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Internal Revenue Service is shutting down its ...

The IRS Direct File program allows eligible taxpayers to prepare and file their taxes for free directly to the government You can use your smartphone, laptop, tablet or desktop computer, no additional ...