I’ve always used TurboTax to file my personal tax return. It’s what my dad showed me when I first started filing taxes, and I’ve used it ever since. I considered trying a free platform in previous ...

FreeTaxUSA is a robust and easy-to-use personal tax preparation service that supports all major IRS forms—including Schedule C—for free, with a modest charge for state returns. A state-of-the-art ...

A direct path to the IRS threatened a powerful player in tax prep. Now the project is gone. The Watchdog explains how—and why ...

The IRS has ended Direct File after two years, leaving 300,000 taxpayers seeking free filing options. Costs soared to $225 ...

Our Editors’ Choice winners for tax software help you get through the filing season as painlessly as possible. Here's how they stack up on cost, support, tax coverage, usability, and more. I write ...

The Trump Administration announced it is ending the IRS’s free tax filing program, Direct File, even though independent ...

The for-profit tax filing industry, including the pure evil company TurboTax, will not get a long-sought deal with the IRS that would give the industry exclusive rights to develop tax filing software ...

I remember the first time I filed my taxes. I was dropping something off at the post office when I saw tables full of cardboard boxes filled with forms with the now-familiar IRS eagle and scales logo.

A House bill would bar the IRS from offering taxpayers software that would compete with programs like TurboTax. Tax activist Grover Norquist and others wrote a letter to members of Congress that urged ...