IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’

[John Drake]

Trump cancels IRS Direct File free tax filing service. Now tax filers need to go back to using for profit tax filing software, whose companies donated to and lobbied Trump to cancel Direct File. Gotta keep those billionaires happy. What a pig he is. 

 

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The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg Law.  https://www.theverge.com/news/717308/irs-direct-file-gone-billy-long-trump-administration

 

[John Drake]

Trump: "If it makes your life worse, we're all in on it."

[gamb00ler]

There are still the non-governmental free filing options.  Not all will accept expatriates but OLT will.  I've used them since moving to CM.

 

I also use a donation ware Excel spreadsheet by Glenn Reeves to do my tax planning... it's super good and is updated multiple times a year.

 

https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

 

[John Drake]

2 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

There are still the non-governmental free filing options.  Not all will accept expatriates but OLT will.  I've used them since moving to CM.

 

I also use a donation ware Excel spreadsheet by Glenn Reeves to do my tax planning... it's super good and is updated multiple times a year.

 

https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

 

 

I've used FreeTaxUSA. But you need a US address. Some of the other companies cancelled their free filing services a few years ago or limited the income or what functions it allowed, such as filing 1099Rs. I didn't use IRS Direct File but I was interested in it, because I understood it allowed for ID.ME verification to integrate your tax information directly into your return.

[riclag]

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

Trump cancels IRS Direct File free tax filing service. Now tax filers need to go back to using for profit tax filing software, whose companies donated to and lobbied Trump to cancel Direct File. Gotta keep those billionaires happy. What a pig he is. 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

Trump cancels IRS Direct File free tax filing service. Now tax filers need to go back to using for profit tax filing software, whose companies donated to and lobbied Trump to cancel Direct File. Gotta keep those billionaires happy. What a pig he is. 

 

 

 

Your source!

Vox Media ,The Verge is an American technology news website based in New York City, operated by Vox Media! Another Trump bashing news service.To my amazement you go to the billionaire anti capitalist narrative. 

The service was tied into the Biden inflation reduction act costing the feds millions. You like free try the IRS free file program.

[stevenl]

4 minutes ago, riclag said:

 

 

Your source!

Vox Media ,The Verge is an American technology news website based in New York City, operated by Vox Media! Another Trump bashing news service.

 

So has the  Direct File free tax filing service been cancelled?

[Thailand J]

CNBC:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-to-end-free-direct-file-program.html

[Thailand J]

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

There are still the non-governmental free filing options.  Not all will accept expatriates but OLT will.  I've used them since moving to CM.

OLT is the only site that I can e-file without a US phone number or address.

Hope it will stay the same or i will have to file by mail.

[cjinchiangrai]

The paper 1040s are still free, and I know how to use them. No worries.

[Thailand J]

3 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

The paper 1040s are still free, and I know how to use them. No worries.

It's 2025. Hello?

 

[gamb00ler]

4 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

The paper 1040s are still free, and I know how to use them. No worries.

And you can probably still find a spinning wheel to spin your own yarn!

[cjinchiangrai]

2 minutes ago, Thailand J said:

It's 2025. Hello?

Yes, it's 2025 and I still remember how pencils and calculators work. They still work just fine.

[riclag]

Is this IRS related or another Trump bashing thread?

God forbid if his administration makes cuts of millions upon millions of dollars ,when there is another free service.

[gamb00ler]

2 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

Yes, it's 2025 and I still remember how pencils and calculators work. They still work just fine.

OK... but do you remember pre-electronic-calculator methods?  Friden perhaps?

[cjinchiangrai]

2 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

And you can probably still find a spinning wheel to spin your own yarn!

It is not that complicated

[cjinchiangrai]

1 minute ago, gamb00ler said:

OK... but do you remember pre-electronic-calculator methods?  Frieden perhaps?

No but I probably still have a slide rule.

[gamb00ler]

Just now, cjinchiangrai said:

It is not that complicated

sure... I've done my own for 35 years... but I still like it better to file electronically.

[gamb00ler]

1 minute ago, cjinchiangrai said:

No but I probably still have a slide rule.

I think I was 11 when my older sister taught me how to use one of those.... but after a dozen or so moves it seems to have missed the boat somewhere.

[gamb00ler]

6 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

It is not that complicated

Since you file your own, I recommend you check out the spreadsheet I mentioned earlier... excellent tool.

[cjinchiangrai]

Just now, gamb00ler said:

I think I was 11 when my older sister taught me how to use one of those.... but after a dozen or so moves it seems to have missed the boat somewhere.

Now that scientific calculators come with your phone, they are not that useful. Logarithmic calculations are not that useful for accounting anyway. I don't really need the calculator, it just saves a little time.