- Some taxpayers will soon qualify for Direct File, a free tax-filing option from the IRS.
- The pilot will begin as an invitation-only service before rolling out to certain taxpayers in 12 states by mid-March.
- In 2023, individual U.S. taxpayers spent an average of $150 to prepare and file returns, according to the IRS.
As the tax season kicks off next week, Americans have several free filing options — and some taxpayers will soon qualify for a new offering from the IRS.
Known as Direct File, the agency’s free filing software pilot will begin as an invitation-only service for a group of government workers before rolling out to certain taxpayers in 12 states by mid-March.
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Direct File comes after a feasibility report authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act. The report found nearly three-quarters of taxpayers expressed interest in a free IRS-provided filing system.
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Eligible states will include Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming.
Why does it take a lot more than 15 minutes? I’ll let this 30-page document from the IRS explain. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p501.pdf
And the U.S. population is 339.1 million, so you expect the tax code to revolve around less than 1% of taxpayers.
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What information?
And how is it that many other countries are able to accomplish what I’m talking about?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-as-you-earn_tax
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I like how you’ve gone from ‘we can’t possibly do this’ to ‘other countries do it, but I don’t know how, so we can’t possibly do this.’
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Okay, if you weren’t saying this wasn’t doable, what on Earth was your point?
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Yes, I know, you suggested that it couldn’t be done in the U.S. but your only answer as to why it can’t be done in the in the U.S. when it can be done in other countries is “I don’t know how it works there,” which is a cop-out. Your ignorance of how it works in other countries doesn’t mean it can’t work in the U.S.