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

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

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 ...

Symbolically, though, it matters: The program was, by all reports, intuitive, popular, and easy to use. Most importantly, it ...

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

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

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year, the ...

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

North Carolina was one of 25 states to participate in Direct File, an electronic filing system through which people could ...

Oregonians can still file their state tax returns using Direct File Oregon regardless of the federal program ending, the ...