Here’s when the IRS is expected to start accepting 2025 tax returns, plus how to track your refund and avoid delays.

The IRS’s Free File program is marking its 23rd year as a free online tax prep option. Chris Gash for Money The IRS’s Free File program is open again this tax season, marking its 23rd year as a free, ...

The IRS’s Free File program is open again this tax season, marking its 23rd year as a free, online tax preparation option for millions of Americans. For 2025, the IRS has made a major expansion to ...

Millions of taxpayers can file for free this year using the IRS' Direct File system. Launched by the agency as a pilot program in 12 states, Direct File processed approximately 140,000 returns in 2024 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The IRS is recommitting to its decades-old partnership with tax prep companies as the main option for Americans to file their taxes ...

NEW YORK -- As the tax filing season gets underway, taxpayers in some states will have a new way to file online available to them in "the coming days," the IRS said this week. Direct File, the free ...

Californians who don’t want to pay for tax-filing software or a commercial preparer have some free online options through the Internal Revenue Service. Related Articles Bay Area leaders hold onto ...

Data shows the IRS' Direct File free tax-filing tool has helped save taxpayers money. Now lawmakers want to know why the Trump administration may soon pull the plug on the program. The Trump ...

The IRS Direct File program has been under fire from Republicans in Congress since it began. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act didn’t get rid of it, despite language in the House version. Still, the ...

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program after a limited pilot and one full filing season. President Donald Trump's massive spending and policy ...