WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS plans to invite select taxpayers across 13 states to try out the agency's pilot electronic free file tax return system beginning in January.
The agency estimates that hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will participate in the limited rollout of the program for the 2024 filing season.
The IRS faces intense blowback from private tax preparation companies that have made billions from charging people to use their software.
The introduction of a government-run option could upend the industry and fundamentally change the way taxpayers interact with IRS.
The states are “really blazing the trail for this exciting project and finding a way for state filing to work within the context of this, ” Zucker said.
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Daniel Werfel, ” Werfel, Werfel, ” Derrick Plummer, Joe Biden, Gabriel Zucker, ” Zucker, that’s, ”
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