The Tesla CEO caused a stir after claiming the program, which allows Americans to file their taxes straight to the IRS, had ...

The Direct File program was launched to benefit over 30 million taxpayers and prompted a backlash from commercial tax prep ...

The Internal Revenue Service's new free online Direct File service is open for business. Last year, more than 20,000 Florida taxpayers took advantage of the pilot program that allowed taxpayers to ...

It's also the first day millions of taxpayers can use the IRS' Direct File system to submit their 2024 returns online for free. Launched as a pilot program in 12 states in March 2024, Direct File ...

If you don’t live in a direct file area, you may still qualify for IRS Free File if you earn under $84,000 and file standard forms. Watch the video above to hear Wealth host Brad Smith explain ...

Now in its second year, Direct File allows some taxpayers to file their returns online, directly with the IRS for free. And this year, it’s expanded to be available to about half the country.

“IRS Direct File will ease the strenuous tax filing ... the state Office of Innovation and the organization Code for America. The tool, designed with input from tax experts and residents ...

Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished, and the free Direct File program is in the crosshairs of GOP lawmakers who are pushing the new Trump administration to take action against it.

The Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-filing system will get a new ability that critics say it should have had all along: automatically filling in information that the IRS already has.

But this year, many more Americans will have the option to use the IRS’s Direct File system. Here’s who’s eligible for Direct File and things you need to know about the 2025 tax filing season.

There is fortunately at least one built-in defense against the targeting of the free Direct File program, which is that it’s not so politically easy to take away from people things they’ve come to ...