President Donald Trump's massive spending and policy bill includes funding to research and "replace any direct e-file ...

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner ...

The IRS pilot program allowing simple free tax filing is still available, but its days appear numbered after agency comments ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced its intention to end the Direct File program, a free tool that allowed ...

The IRS announced the return of Direct File in a statement on Jan. 10, when it also announced that the 2025 tax season would officially kick off on Jan. 27.

IRS says more than 140,000 Americans filed their taxes free using its Direct File pilot but industry critics say the program's unnecessary and costly.

The IRS is making its free tax-filing platform permanent and open to all 50 states and D.C., the Biden administration announced Thursday, following the successful launch of the first-of-its-kind ...

IRS Direct File will allow people to electronically file their federal taxes for free, directly through the IRS, the agency says. But it is only being offered to a limited number of tax filers in ...

The IRS has said repeatedly it wants to start slow with direct file to build a solid operational base that can later be scaled up in terms of functionality and used more widely. Advocates of the ...

Direct File won't be able to handle any tax returns that get complicated, at least for now. This is a pilot program and the IRS is keeping it simple to gauge the reaction.

The IRS is launching its free Direct File pilot program for the 2024 tax filing season (2023 tax returns). The program will initially be limited to a select group of taxpayers in 12 states.

Starting this tax season, 12 states are piloting Direct File, a new service from the IRS. If you have a basic W-2 return and claim the standard deduction, you may be able to use Direct File to ...