Taxpayers in 25 states will need to find a new way to file their taxes in 2026 as the IRS has shut down the free Direct File ...

The IRS cited low usage and high costs as reasons for shuttering the program, which began during the previous administration.

While the IRS hasn’t officially confirmed that the program is dead, the website indicates that the program is closed—and ...

The IRS Direct File will not be available for the upcoming tax filing season. However, other programs like the Free File and ...

IRS Commissioner Bill Long—who Trump later fired—also indicated that the Direct File program had been scuttled. "You’ve hea ...

The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is ...

The IRS is ending the Biden-era 'Direct File' program. The program began as a pilot for tax year 2023 in 12 states for filing ...

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is officially ending Direct File, the free, government-run tax-filing pilot program ...

Direct File, the free tax filing tool offered by the Internal Revenue Service, won't be an option for taxpayers next year.

Over two dozen states incorporated the free tax software in 2025, but the IRS has decided to discontinue the program.

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been ...

The Internal Revenue Service notified Oregon and other states on Monday that the federal government has canceled a free, ...