The release was not spontaneous, nor was it a leak, as the IRS had already been considering releasing the code as a way to demonstrate a commitment to public trust and enable independent assessment of ...

Recent policy choices by the Trump Administration and congressional Republicans have made the tax system less effective at ...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 13: A sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seen outside its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Members of Elon Musk's Department of Government ...

Direct File, the Internal Revenue Service’s long-promised free tax filing software, might be at risk of being killed off by the Trump administration, but the code that made the service possible will ...

Direct File was launched as a pilot program in 2024. It allowed eligible taxpayers in a limited number of states to file their federal returns directly with the IRS at no cost. The program was ...

The end of the popular program offers timely evidence that the Republican administration isn’t actually interested in trying ...

In the weeks leading up to the Trump administration’s decision to kill Direct File, Merici Vinton held out a sliver of hope that the IRS’s free electronic filing tool would be spared. After all, Elon ...

The IRS base budget is now 40 percent below its 2010 level after inflation, highlighting a decade of fiscal shifts that ...

A hot potato: Before the new Trump administration took office, the IRS had been working to modernize its aging technology infrastructure and implement major changes aimed at improving the taxpayer ...

Lawmakers say that more than 800,000 taxpayers could receive CP53E notices tied to the phaseout of paper checks, potentially ...