A tax extension gives you more time to file your federal income taxes. For the 2025 tax year, the IRS gives you six extra months to file your return, which means you have until October 15, 2026 ...

Activists try to preserve IRS’s Direct File now that Trump has ended it The program offered free tax filing for two years under Biden. Republicans shut it down, but a small group hopes to keep ...

If Direct File is shut down, check to see if you can file for free through IRS Free File, Cash App Taxes or a free tier of online tax software. The Treasury Department did not respond to CNET's ...

For the 2025 tax season, Free File was available to anyone -- individuals or families -- with a gross income limit of $84,000, and worked in collaboration with software companies like FreeTaxUSA ...

Buzz has begun about whether the IRS will delay its 2026 tax filing kickoff. IRS says it will announce the timing of "opening in the regular course." ...

A 389-page tax bill released by House Republicans on Tuesday includes a provision directing the Secretary of the Treasury to terminate IRS Direct File within 30 days of the bill's passage.