In the first year, more than 140,000 households in 12 states did their taxes with Direct File.
More than 140,000 households used Direct File to complete their 2023 tax returns, the IRS said Friday. website came in under budget and earned high marks from users, and that officials will decide this spring whether to renew the experimental program for another tax season.
On Friday, IRS commissioner Danny Werfel said that 140,803 households completed their tax returns using the new Direct File software which was available partway through tax season in 12 states and only to people with limited types of income and tax circumstances.Tax prep companies and Republicans in Congress and statehouses have been fiercely critical of the Direct File program.
“The IRS claims of spending only $24.6 million taxpayer dollars on Direct File are clearly low, inaccurate, and the IRS even acknowledges conveniently leaving out necessary costs to build and run the pilot,” Intuit spokesman Rick Heineman wrote in an email to The Washington Post. “Facts matter.”
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