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The Tax Department offers free tools to confirm credentials and avoid fraudulent preparers ahead of the April 15 deadline.

Don’t search the internet using terms such as “file my taxes for free” — you could end up on the website of a scammer or the ...

Transferring files between your Android phone and PC used to be a task worthy of a trapeze artist—cables, apps, and cloud shuffle. But what if you could send ...

Free File is not Direct File, which the IRS has discontinued for the 2026 tax season. This tax season, according to the IRS, eight private-sector partners are offering guided tax software products ...

Blip, a handy app for Mac, iOS, Windows and Android, is a better way to transfer files. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac The Blip file transfer app is a delightful utility that lets you move ...

The Internal Revenue Service announced it would be opening up submissions of certain tax returns through its IRS Free File program for 2026. The IRS Free File program began accepting individual tax ...

The Trump administration has shut down the IRS "Direct File" program, which was a free tax filing option. Critics of Direct File cited high development costs and low user participation for its closure ...

The IRS Direct File program, a free tax filing option, has been discontinued for the 2026 tax season. The program was ended by the Trump Administration after a two-year pilot due to low participation ...

The IRS will open the 2026 tax season in just a few days, but you could be wasting money by paying to file your 2025 income tax returns. According to personal finance resource NerdWallet, roughly 70% ...

(NEXSTAR) – In 2025, nearly 300,000 Americans used a new electronic system to file their taxes directly with the IRS for free. In 2026, that’s no longer an option. IRS Direct File launched as a pilot ...