The IRS Direct File program will not be offered for the 2026 filing season, leaving potentially millions of taxpayers without this free file option. The program, which allowed residents in 25 pilot ...

Kelly Phillips Erb is a Forbes senior writer who covers tax. Nov 05, 2025, 09:21pm EST Updated Nov 6, 2025, 12:11pm EST The IRS Direct File program is no longer available. (Photo by Tasos ...

IRS Direct File Won't Be Available Next Year. Here's What That Means for Taxpayers WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next ...

Fortunately, you still have options. In fact, the majority of people can take advantage of another IRS program that’s been around a lot longer than Direct File. Beyond that, there are other ...

This season, Americans will have one fewer free option to use when filing their 2025 income taxes. Direct File, launched during former President Joe Biden's term, was meant to simplify federal tax ...

The Trump administration has shut down the IRS’s two-year-old experiment in free streamlined tax filing, but the people behind Direct File don’t want to let it go quietly. The massive tax-and-spending ...

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been expanding. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Internal Revenue Service is shutting down its ...

Direct File is officially dead—at least that’s the sense coming out of the IRS at the moment. A recent IRS press release reminds taxpayers who requested an extension that “IRS Free File makes it easy.

The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won’t be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to ...

Free File is not Direct File, which the IRS has discontinued for the 2026 tax season. This tax season, according to the IRS, eight private-sector partners are offering guided tax software products ...