Direct File, the free tax filing tool offered by the Internal Revenue Service, won't be an option for taxpayers next year.

The key is making sure your gift is structured in a tax-efficient way and completed before the year-end deadline so it counts ...

Direct File won’t be available anymore to do your taxes next year. Here’s what that means once the tax filing season opens in ...

While the IRS hasn’t officially confirmed that the program is dead, the website indicates that the program is closed—and ...

As of November 2025, the 2026 tax filing season remains two months away, but multiple regulatory and administrative changes ...

Greene County taxpayers have four different ways to pay their real and personal property taxes that are due Dec. 31.

Regardless of when the government gets back up and running, it is likely that the effects of the reduced staff, reduced ...

IRS Commissioner Bill Long—who Trump later fired—also indicated that the Direct File program had been scuttled. "You’ve hea ...

The electronic system for filing tax returns for free, IRS Direct File, isn’t going to be available for taxpayers next year, ...

A memo to states last week confirmed what many have long expected was coming: “IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.” ...

The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical.