AP: Trump admin to kill IRS free tax-filing service that Intuit lobbied against
The Trump administration plans to kill the free tax filing program operated by the Internal Revenue Service, the Associated Press reported today, citing two anonymous sources.
The IRS launched Direct File in a pilot for the 2024 tax filing season. It was available to taxpayers in 12 states last year, and was available in 25 states this year. The program’s website says the filing tool will be open until October 15 for people who obtained deadline extensions, but it hasn’t been updated to account for the plan to end Direct File.
“The program had been in limbo since the start of the Trump administration as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have slashed their way through the federal government,” the AP article said. “Musk posted in February on his social media site, X, that he had ‘deleted’ 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as Direct File.”
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