IRS expands free Direct File program to 12 new states

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Mashable

October 4, 2024


The Internal Revenue Service's free tax filing program, Direct File, will be open to residents of 12 new states for the 2025 tax return season.

Those states are Alaska, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to an IRS announcement. They join 12 states — Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming — that participated in the program this year, expanding Direct File access to more than 30 million taxpayers nationwide. The remaining 26 states not part of Direct File have not yet opted into the program.

Direct File allows eligible taxpayers the opportunity to file their taxes directly with the IRS, using software built by the agency. Direct File works on mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and desktop computers.

The IRS is also enhancing Direct File for the 2025 tax season by adding a chatbot to guide taxpayers through the agency's eligibility checker and covering new tax situations.

Read more: https://mashable.com/article/irs-direct-file-expansion

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Yay Pennsylvania!!!

[Deuxcents]

1. Bookmarked and thanks.

[AverageOldGuy]

2. Meanwhile, in Virginia . . .

. . . the Republican asshole governor has barred the IRS from making Direct File available in Virginia.

He spent a career at the Carlyle Group. I suspect Carlyle owns a lot of stock in the companies such as Turbo Tax, who have an vested interest in keeping Direct File from being used.

[Chellee]

3. Oh look, Indiana isn't on the list.

Who could have predicted that? Who?!? I ask you.

I love living in a red state.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "I love living in a red state."

And to think the Bayh family once ran the place and Obama even won the state in 2008!

[WhiteTara]

4. Well, no surprise, neither is Arkansas

we're so red, we bleed here.

[TurboDem]

6. Bookmarking