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Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/
111•jhatax•2h ago

Comments

voidhorse•1h ago
Isn't it great to have a government that serves corporations and not its people!
tinktank•1h ago
no
cozzyd•1h ago
As long as they don't kill FreeFillableForms...
tinktank•1h ago
[sorry](https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...)
teraflop•57m ago
That's about it being closed for the 2025 tax year (because the filing deadling has passed), not about the program being shut down.
hyperrail•1h ago
https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file <- Direct File's web app source code is public-domain and published on GitHub!

Obviously the 2025 version will be out of date for the 2026 filing season, though public code means it can always be revived by anyone else.

(previous HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131901 )

jordanb•1h ago
Money well spent

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-makers-turbotax-gave-trum...

grandpoobah•55m ago
Such a cheap bribe holy crap.
vjvjvjvjghv•30m ago
When you look at the donations politicians receive and the ROI they produce you quickly realize that they are way too cheap. Politicians should ask for way more money so lobbying is not that incredibly profitable.
latexr•10m ago
> Politicians should ask for way more money so lobbying is not that incredibly profitable.

Except those corrupt politicians want lobbying to be profitable, so they can profit from it too. And if they ask for too much, they’ll just bribe the next guy or may even try to put their own in office. Can’t have that!

charcircuit•59m ago
With the rise of AI there is no excuse on why tax software should be so hard to make.
SamuelAdams•57m ago
You’re going to give your tax data - some of the most sensitive data to some constituents - to OpenAI / Google / some other startup?

That seems like a nightmare of a product as far as privacy is concerned.

simonw•49m ago
I think they meant that it should be a lot faster to develop software that implements the tax code with the assistance of AI coding tools.
amluto•48m ago
ISTM one ought to be able to use AI to translate the official IRS forms to a machine readable format. No personal data needs to go anywhere near the AI.

Even if you do want to feed your personal data to an AI tax bot, this should be easily within the capabilities of a model that can run locally.

sublinear•37m ago
> translate the official IRS forms to a machine readable format

The instructions for each form published by the IRS every year are already written by professional technical writers to be unambiguous. Do you mean that someone ought to write a simplified english grammar transpiler? I think that would genuinely be interesting. What's missing are the guidelines the technical writers are using, but that can probably be derived.

jordanb•45m ago
Fwiw they have already bought all you financial info from Experian

https://theworknumber.com/solutions/products/income-employme...

vjvjvjvjghv•32m ago
I was flabbergasted when I heard of this. Basically you are totally transparent for anybody who wants to spend some money.
estimator7292•47m ago
The entire reason that tax software is hard is that it can NEVER produce a wrong answer. Plus tax law is about ten thousand times more complicated than you're assuming.
charcircuit•39m ago
>it can NEVER produce a wrong answer

As the government it should be possible to reduce the negative impact of making mistakes.

>Plus tax law is about ten thousand times more complicated than you're assuming.

Then start simple. You don't have to cover all of tax law at the start.

esprehn•22m ago
People file incorrect tax amounts all the time. It's the government's job to verify the return and either refund you or request more money. There's a decent margin for error, and not all returns are audited so the IRS must also have a margin for error they're building policy and budgets around.
gdulli•35m ago
Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target, lest it be mistaken for, and contribute to, that which it intends to criticize.
tombert•33m ago
I'm surprised that there hasn't been an "this is good for bitcoin" comments yet.
sublinear•44m ago
What was wrong with using Free File Fillable Forms in the first place? It's the real deal forms just online and with nothing obscured or sugar coated.

I use it every year, and while I wouldn't exactly say I enjoy doing my taxes, I do enjoy being fully aware what I'm filing and not being forced to do it on paper just because others have obtuse opinions or are lazy.

hshdhdhj4444•31m ago
Why does anyone want a better option when a worse option is available…
girl2•43m ago
This wont bode well.........
polski-g•43m ago
Turbo tax is free for federal filers with no business income, same thing as this service. Except now no taxpayer dollars were spent on maintaining this. This would have been useful if it also did state taxes, which turbo tax is not free for.
tombert•34m ago
Wasn't part of the impetus for the free file program because TurboTax actively hid the free filing options?

I am pretty sure that state filing would have happened in the future if the Trump admin hadn't killed it; you have to start somewhere, federal is as good a place as any.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...

loco5niner•29m ago
They were rolling out matching services state by state. Something like 12 last year. And Turbo tax is NOT "free for federal filers with no business income". Just look at the Costco Turbotax stands every year.
uvaursi•38m ago
Direct File won’t happen in 2026, Intuit tells IRS
delfugal•5m ago
Only in America would citizens allow some CEO run company, like Intuit to rob them blind year after year. Americans are dumb.

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