Only 2% of federal income tax returns were filed through Free File, despite 70% of filers qualifying. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Free File is not Direct File, which the IRS has discontinued for the 2026 tax season. This tax season, according to the IRS, eight private-sector partners are offering guided tax software products ...

Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new platforms promise automation and out-of-the-box intelligence, many teams continue to rely on ...

The Internal Revenue Service announced it would be opening up submissions of certain tax returns through its IRS Free File program for 2026. The IRS Free File program began accepting individual tax ...

Even though the tax agency's free pilot program is no longer available, there are other free tax filing options this season. Robin Hartill Robin Hartill is a Florida-based Certified Financial Planner ...

A while ago, I was asked by a former colleague about the best way to convert Parquet files into comma-separated values (CSV) format using Python. The honest answer? It depends. And so on and so on ...

The IRS ended Direct File, the free, online pilot program that nearly 300,000 taxpayers in 25 states used to file returns for tax year 2024. The IRS website for Direct File says “Direct File is closed ...

The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday began asking Oregonians and taxpayers across the country to weigh in on a fight that has been brewing in Washington, D.C.: Whether the federal government ...