The Internal Revenue Service has ended its Direct File program for the 2026 filing season, pulling back a government-run tool ...

Americans pay an average of about $290 to file their tax return each year, according to the National Taxpayers Union. There's ...

The IRS' free tax filing program is in jeopardy as the agency faces continued cuts from the Trump administration. Funded under the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, the program has been heavily ...

The Internal Revenue Service vastly overstated the projected costs of operating the free tax prep program before terminating ...

Rumors of the demise of the free IRS tax filing software Direct File have been circulating since Tax Day 2025. On Monday, the IRS officially ended the program, at least for 2026. In a letter to 25 ...

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The cost of professional tax help has gone up in recent years. As a result, a growing number of Americans are choosing to ...

Mia Francis, a 22-year-old barista from Boston, filed her taxes on her own this year for the first time, using a free government tax filing program that made it easy because it did most of the work ...

Refunds are still higher than last year following the 2025 changes to the tax law, but recent data shows little additional ...

The Internal Revenue Service has shut down its Direct File free tax-filing program, sending an email to the 25 states that offered it this year. The email was sent to the state departments of revenue ...