The Akron Democrat's "Get Your Money Back Act" would make the free tax filing program permanent nationwide, challenging Republican claims that it creates redundancy.

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 ...

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.

Direct File was rolled out as a pilot program in 2024 after the IRS was tasked with looking into how to create a “direct file” system as part of the money it received from the Inflation ...

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.

Is IRS Direct File going away? It certainly seems like that. The reconciliation bill that recently passed the House of Representatives by the narrowest margin possible -- beyond extending the 2017 ...

Language terminating the IRS-run free electronic filing program is being removed from the GOP tax megabill, but funding to create a task force to study its replacement will remain, according to a ...