Re:TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing ta...
by runako on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:39AM
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> the Internal Revenue Service could prepare the taxes of most Americans
IRS Direct File[1] did exactly this. It apparently worked really well, and people liked using it, netting ~$20 billion in savings to the Americans that used it (roughly half of that came out of the pockets of the tax-prep industry).
Then, DOGE got to it and the new administration's IRS commissioner killed the program.
IRS Direct File[1] did exactly this. It apparently worked really well, and people liked using it, netting ~$20 billion in savings to the Americans that used it (roughly half of that came out of the pockets of the tax-prep industry).
Then, DOGE got to it and the new administration's IRS commissioner killed the program.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Direct_File