Reviving Direct File : Democracy Journal

If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already knows so much about our taxes, why does the process to file them have to be so onerous? A group of advocates and technologists got together to make tax filing suck less, and it worked really well. That is, until President Donald Trump killed it.

Launched in 2024, Direct File—the first public online tax filing tool in U.S. history—became…