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WASHINGTON — The IRS said Thursday it will make permanent the free electronic tax return filing system that it experimented with this year and is asking all 50 states and the District of Columbia to ...

With the federal tax filing deadline approaching, the IRS is encouraging eligible taxpayers to use its Free File program to prepare and submit federal returns at no cost. The service, offered in ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Angus King, I-Maine, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., want the Government Accountability Office to conduct a ...

This 2026 tax season is the first in which Americans can’t use Direct File, a short-lived IRS initiative intended to save 30 million Americans time and money they would have otherwise spent getting ...

As of April 2025, the average American spent about $290 to file their income tax returns, according to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. That’s a pretty good chunk of money, although spending ...

The program allows people in some states with very simple W-2s to calculate and submit their returns directly to the IRS. Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted Monday on his social media site that ...

The Internal Revenue Service vastly overstated the projected costs of operating the Direct File free tax preparation program before terminating it for this tax season, according to a new report.