Are we getting a stimulus check in August 2025? Here's status update on $600 rebate stimulus checks, how to track IRS refund ...

Contact the IRS if more than 21 days have passed since electronic filing (or six weeks for paper returns) and the online tool does not provide a reason for the delay.

The Trump administration has shut down the IRS’s two-year-old experiment in free streamlined tax filing, but the people behind Direct File don’t want to let it go quietly.

More taxpayers will have access to the IRS Direct File program in 2025. In 2024, the IRS kicked off the program with only 12 states; that number has expanded to 25 states for the 2025 tax season.

While the cost of operating Direct File this year has yet to be calculated, the IRS spent at least $33.4 million on last year's test run, according to a different watchdog report.

IRS' Direct File is free for millions of taxpayers, but not everyone wants to keep it around Direct File, now in its second year, lets some taxpayers electronically file their returns directly ...