IRS will launch free tax-filing pilot program during the 2024 tax filing season
After a months-long review, the Internal Revenue Service will test a free federal tax-filing pilot program, IRS and Treasury Department officials said Tuesday.
During the last tax-filing season, people spent an average of $140 and approximately eight hours preparing their taxes, according to IRS estimates. Factor in business returns and that average tax-prep increased to $250. There’s consumer appetite for an IRS-run free filing choice and a prototype used by some consumers “exceeded their expectations in terms of ease of use and simplicity,” the study said.
“Direct file — whether it’s in its pilot phase, or whether a decision is made to go forward more broadly than that — will be just an option for taxpayers,” Werfel said. That includes commercial tax-preparation software, he noted. The IRS already has a free-filing program, allowing people who make less than $73,000 a year to file their federal tax return for free. That program — a partnership with certain tax software companies — is underutilized, according to the IRS’ Taxpayer Advocate Service. The new pilot, if successful, could be rolled out to a greater number of taxpayers.
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