That Republicans have shoved a pillow in the face of while proclaiming, “… we think the private sector can do a better job.”

I am still waiting for the private sector to step up on ALL of them.

The only flirtations with a “better job” so far is Republican lawmakers setting up halfassed vouchers and savings accounts on education, retirement, health care, housing, law enforcement, unemployment, and so on that have neatly carved my income into at least six halves to properly fund.

Read, seeking bribes from cronies that want the business. Make sure to kick up to the boss, his cut.

Thank you BumRush.

Each year the library has trained staff who will help file your taxes. An appointment is required and you must bring your paperwork. The filing is done free and has been a blessing for me for the past 3 years.
Few of us know how to do the state and federal taxes. I don't understand why this offering is being stopped. What threat are we to trump and his crew?
What a freaking mess.

that was still being pilot-tested as late as last year and could be used by all taxpayers.

They were phasing it in several states at a time each year, and PA finally made the list for availability last fall when the election happened, and I assumed the whole thing would be killed (and it was). Thus I didn't even try filing that way figuring 45 would screw it (and the data) up.

Normally, if you met a certain income threshold (I think around $75,000 adjusted gross), then there always was an older electronic filing system ( "Free File" ) that the government runs, and where there is no cost to use it. People who had higher incomes couldn't use that, which is why this referenced "Direct File" was such a bonus!

We should not have to pay someone else in order to pay the government.
It is like a mafia operation.

This is the essence of republicanism. It is anti-freedom. It is anti-American, and it creates an economic system of corporate mobs that do not compete . Instead they pay contributions to Republicans to turn their businesses into make-work projects benefiting themselves at our expense.

Let us put IRS Direct File on the list of services we need to run our country when the Weird Ones are out of office.

It always WAS ours (Democrats) until the MAGat loons torpedoed it.

My own state (PA) *finally* made the phase-in list last fall and after the election, I figured it would be DOA once 45 took office, so I decided to not even try (even though I had planned to use it), just in case my financial info got caught up in their slash and burn campaign.

to attract foreign investment colliding with his war on immigrants and sending Koreans packing, He's going to run out of money for his pie in the sky golden Dome and other projects as his tariff measure flop and IRS revenue dries up. He's not a genius, he's an moron.

Show me one instance where private sector performs better than public.
One.

I have been using it since 2008 and it is easy to use. It also offers to do state taxes for a small fee last time I looked. I live in Florida now so I don’t have to do state taxes.