How to file your taxes for free with IRS Direct File For 2025, the IRS-sponsored program has expanded into 25 states. Updated Wed, Apr 16 2025. Dan Avery Editor, CNBC Select.

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

Direct File was first rolled out by the IRS in 2024 in 12 states as a service allowing taxpayers to file their annual returns directly to the agency for free.

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

IRS Direct File, the nation's first free tax-filing system, was meant to ease the pain of complex filings. Employees who worked on it are worried that DOGE wants to kill the two-year-old program ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is in the process of issuing tax refunds to those who filed their returns last month ...

The IRS has lost more than a quarter of its employees under the Trump administration and faces further staffing cuts.

Poor customer service and outdated technology systems at the IRS contribute to a lack of transparency and threaten to turn ...

As reported by Kiplinger, the layoffs at the IRS impacted nearly every division. By the end of the 2025 tax season, more than 25% of the agency’s workforce had been cut down via layoffs, buyouts, or ...

The ambitious tax reform bill, dubbed the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' promises sweeping changes to the U.S. tax landscape. With ...

First and foremost, file your tax return as soon as possible, even if you can’t afford to pay the full amount you owe. Why?