It is officially tax season, and with the filing deadline a couple of months away, the New York Department of Consumer and ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration says it’s increasing enforcement against unscrupulous tax preparers as well.

For many families, tax prep fees can take a big bite out of their refund, but a local program is working to change that.

Each year, Americans spend an average of $240 to prepare and file their tax returns, according to the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service. And the process is so complicated that about a million taxpayers ...

CNBC Select has run more than a dozen tax software programs through their paces to find the best in a variety of categories. For more on how we made our selections, see our methodology. Who's this for ...

This season, more than 140,000 taxpayers successfully filed returns using IRS Direct File, a free tax filing pilot from the IRS, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS. The ...

The mayor's office estimated that last year's program saved an average of $346 in tax preparation fees per return and $38.2 ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a crackdown on predatory fees in the tax prep industry on Tuesday, part of an affordability ...

MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI on Tuesday kicked off the 2026 tax season by announcing free, in-person and virtual tax preparation services.