The IRS lost 26% of its 102,000-person workforce to layoffs and buyouts this year through early June, amid a larger effort by ...

Taxpayers could face significant hurdles during the 2026 tax filing season after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reduced ...

Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) is celebrating the House-passed bill that would shut down the Internal Revenue Service Direct File ...

Learn what IRS Direct File is, how to handle Notice CP59, and if there’s a real $500 IRS refund in 2025, including key filing ...

The National Taxpayer Advocate, Erin Collins, released her fiscal year 2026 Objectives Report to Congress. While the ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) moved toward government transparency by open-sourcing its Direct File software code. Direct File is a free, user-friendly tax filing tool developed in ...

Poor customer service and outdated technology systems at the IRS contribute to a lack of transparency and threaten to turn ...

According to 404 Media, the IRS published most of the code for its Direct File on GitHub, making it open source and available for others to use, much to the chagrin of tax lobbyists everywhere.

The IRS and Treasury Department didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Moving forward, some alumni of Direct File are working on a new project on the future of tax filing.

How Direct File did Big picture, 296,531 people successfully submitted an accepted tax return this year using Direct File, which the IRS spent $41 million on this filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service has released to the public the vast majority of the code used to develop its Direct File program, theoretically allowing anyone to build their own versions of the software ...