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.

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.

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.

Connecticut will join IRS Direct File for federal tax returns in the 2025 filing season, Gov. Ned Lamont and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Friday. The idea behind IRS Direct File is to ...

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.

It’s that time of year when throngs of taxpayers are buckling down to file their income tax returns before Tuesday’s filing deadline. Many often pay to use software from private companies such ...

Starting in 2006, an agreement between the IRS and some commercial tax preparation companies, known as the Free File Alliance, prevented the IRS from creating its own free tax return filing system.

To prepare the system for the upcoming filing season, the IRS Business Modernized e-File system will partially and temporarily shut down just before the end of the year. Shutdown for "Send Submissions ...

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.