Free tax prep software is available to anyone with an adjusted gross income below $84,000 In the VITA program, volunteers will prepare taxes for free in Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Arabic, French ...

Each tax season, many Americans qualify for free filing programs. The IRS partners with agencies to offer free filing based on income as well as other conditions. In addition, several companies offer ...

IRS Direct File, a free online system for filing federal taxes, has been scrapped for 2026. Almost 300,000 people used IRS Direct File in 2025. So, are they out of luck, along with millions of others ...

(InvestigateTV) — NerdWallet reported that, despite 70% of Americans qualifying for free federal income tax filing, less than 1.9% did in 2023. Elizabeth Renter, a senior economist with NerdWallet, ...

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service opened IRS Free File on Jan. 9, allowing eligible people to prepare and submit their federal tax returns early. The main IRS filing season begins on Jan. 26 ...

The Internal Revenue Service's new free online Direct File service is open for business. Last year, more than 20,000 Florida taxpayers took advantage of the pilot program that allowed taxpayers to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A provision tucked inside Republicans’ reconciliation text would officially end IRS Direct File — a Biden-era free tax filing website ...

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, the Internal Revenue Service’s long-promised free tax filing software, might be at risk of being killed off by the Trump administration, but the code that made the service possible will ...

Reports indicate that the Trump administration is planning to eliminate the IRS Direct File program. While Republican lawmakers had previously targeted the program, the free tax software program had ...

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 ...