Why would you think they want to help you? Are you a multimillionaire? Do you benefit from cutting social services to fund a tax write off that helps you?

Ordinary people are completely fucked.

This has TurboTax written all over it.

If they actually do this there needs to be a nation wide denial of tax payments. People should just straight up not pay in large enough numbers that they can't prosecute everyone.

I know it will never happen and we'll just be mandatory piggy banks for Intuit, but it's nice to dream...

God I hate this country.

They can’t stop squeezing the working class for every last penny.

When the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the Internal Revenue Service earlier this year, leaders of the group reassured workers that the agency’s free tax filing tool, Direct File, would be spared from cuts. But only a few days after meeting with tax software lobbyists, the beloved tool was placed on the chopping block, multiple sources familiar tell WIRED. The plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS which services 25 states, was initiated by Sam Corcos, CEO of an Andreessen Horowitz–backed health startup that has ties to SpaceX. Corcos’ suggestion to cut the popular service was presented to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the beginning of March, multiple sources familiar say. The weekend before Corcos suggested ending Direct File, he spoke of it positively to IRS engineers. By Friday, he had changed his tune. As sources WIRED spoke to understand it, Direct File would remain online through the 2025 tax filing season but would likely be dead by next year.

I'm surprised it took so many meeting

Didn't sometime leak the source code to the government tax filing software, with the intent of making it open source? It's not an ideal solution, but if that is a viable solution (and if it's maintained properly) then that's a pretty big nose-thumbing at these curious government officials.

'cause fuck you, that's why!