The e-file system is secure. The IRS developed its e-file system to meet strict guidelines. As such, it has what the IRS calls "the best encryption technology" available.

FILE - A portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form is shown July 24, 2018, in New York. The IRS has been tasked with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic ...

The first step toward an eventual federal e-filing system is the IRS’s report, for which the agency received $15 million from the Inflation Reduction Act.

The IRS is working on its own version of a free electronic tax-filing system that could compete with tax-prep programs from the likes of Intuit's TurboTax and H&R Block. The agency is rolling out ...

FILE - A portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form is shown July 24, 2018, in New York. The IRS said Tuesday, June 21, 2022, that it will have erased its backlog of last season's ...

New push on U.S.-run free electronic tax-filing system for all A portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form is shown July 24, 2018, in New York.

The IRS has been tasked with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system for all. But that doesn’t sit well with the big tax-prep companies.

FILE – A portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form is shown July 24, 2018, in New York. The IRS has been tasked with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic ...

There could be a new, free option in future years.The IRS has been tasked with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system for all.