IRS Chief Says Agency Plans To End Free Filing Program (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/1522254/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-to-end-free-filing-program
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-to-end-free-direct-file-program.html
> President Donald Trump's massive spending and policy bill includes funding to research and "replace any direct e-file programs run by the Internal Revenue Service."
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> Already, the program is "gone," Long said at a tax professional summit on July 28, Bloomberg Law reports. "You've heard of Direct File, that's gone," Long said. "Big beautiful Billy wiped that out. I don't care about Direct File. I care about direct audit."
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-to-end-free-direct-file-program.html
Why (Score:2)
are republicans such obese pieces of shit and why haven't they keeled over from heart attacks and strokes?
USA now devolved to Canadian status (Score:1)
We never had anything resembling direct file with the Canadian Revenue Agency. You're as bad as us, you should be embarrassed.
I don't care about Direct File. I care about (Score:4, Insightful)
"I don't care about Direct File. I care about direct audit for poor people", Fixed your quote for you Bill.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
And just how much did Intuit and HR Block donate to Trump?
Re: (Score:3)
Interestingly, no such company exists here in Brazil. The reason is that our government has been offering full tax filling apps for free since I remember filling taxes (about 25 years). It's written in Java and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac without any problem. And for people who a normal salary, without investments or anything complicated, there's also free simplified tax filling apps for Android and iOS.
If the person has extra-complex stuff going on with their earnings, they can hire an accountant to fil
well (Score:2)
are we winning yet?
Re: (Score:3)
Maybe when third-parties stop nominating nutballs and cranks.
paper forms (Score:4, Interesting)
We should all do the IRS a favor and print out the forms and fill them out by hand. We should all mail them in for manual processing. See there is still a free option, its just not software and is more work for everyone including the IRS. Bury them in their own work.
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You have my vote!
Re: (Score:1)
[sarcasm] Yes we should make things difficult for people just trying to do their jobs because we disagree with other things. Just the other day, I made the wait staff at a restaurant miserable with my constant and ridiculous demands because they dare charge me more for food due to inflation. I sure showed those college kids working part time.[/sarcasm]
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Stamps aren't free. (And hand delivering will involve some kind of transportation cost.)
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
(But I agree, except this doesn't seem to be about free filing through third party sites, only about direct free filing.)
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Stamps aren't free but neither is internet access. So there is always a cost. We are talking about the actual filing cost, not the cost of delivery to the IRS.
US (Score:2, Insightful)
Where you have to pay, in order to pay your taxes.