The IRS will test a free tax filing service in 2024 for a subset of lucky taxpayers in as many as 13 states, the agency announced today. Direct File, as the service is called, is a shot across the ...

Benjamin Franklin famously said that nothing is certain in life except for death and taxes. Taxes are so certain, in fact, that people and businesses pay them almost every day without even realizing ...

First rolled out as a limited pilot in 2024 under the Biden administration, the Direct File program allowed taxpayers in certain states to file federal tax returns online for free directly with the ...

The IRS has removed its free Direct File option for taxes. Most taxpayers can use the official Free File program. There are several other ways to file taxes for no charge. Tax filing season officially ...

Getting your taxes done for free sounds like something that you're bound to regret. But several real-deal tax freebies exist. Many people could save the $300 or more that they pay for tax services by ...

Google, Meta, and several tax prep companies, including H&R Block and TaxAct, are fielding an escalating number of U.S. lawsuits alleging that they allowed tracking pixels to unlawfully collect ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The IRS knows how annoying it can be to sit down and try to crank out your taxes — and get to pay for ...

The Internal Revenue Service is moving ahead with a plan to build its own free tax filing program, known as Direct File, announcing Tuesday that a pilot version will be available to some taxpayers in ...

Last spring, I wrote about the investment strategy of direct indexing, which involves buying an equity index directly rather than through a fund. (Technically, direct indexing usually samples a ...