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The Internal Revenue Service is no longer issuing paper tax refunds after September, according to a news release published by the department. On Sept. 23, the agency said it will transition to fully ...

You’ve got less than two weeks to file your tax returns by the April 15 deadline. The IRS received more than 80 million tax returns through March 21, the agency said. Of those, nearly 55 million ...

The Internal Revenue Service has a new Direct File pilot program for the 2024 tax season that allows users in certain states to file taxes directly and for free at directfile.irs.gov. Some early users ...

The IRS Direct File program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, offered a streamlined, cost-free method for taxpayers to file their federal taxes directly with the IRS. This system was praised ...

Beginning on Sept. 30, 2025, paper tax refund checks will be phased out of use, as required by Executive Order 14247. This change is the first step in the IRS and the U.S Department of the Treasury’s ...

New Jersey residents will have a new way to file their federal tax returns this year. The program, called IRS Direct File, was tested in 12 states during the 2023 tax filing season. It’s been added as ...