No more IRS Direct File: What tools you can use instead for your 2026 tax return

The IRS is pulling the plug on one of its most popular pilot initiatives just as millions of Americans prepare for the 2026 ...

IRS Shuts Down Free Direct File Tool—Here’s What Taxpayers Can Use Instead

The IRS Direct File will not be available for the upcoming tax filing season. However, other programs like the Free File and ...

IRS Direct File ends. Here are other free or low-cost tax-filing options to consider.

Direct File has ended. Americans who used the free tax-filing program will have to find a new option. Here are some ...
KTVZ

Wyden blasts administration for ending Direct File free tax return filing; Oregonians still have free-filing options

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a sharply critical statement Thursday regarding a report ...
PCMag

IRS: Free Direct File Program Won't Be Available for 2026 Tax Season

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

Death to Free Taxes: IRS Officially Ends Its Direct File Tax Filing Software

Over two dozen states incorporated the free tax software in 2025, but the IRS has decided to discontinue the program.