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DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
Corcos’ suggestion to cut the popular service was presented to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the beginning of March, multiple sources familiar say. “We think [the IRS] ought to wind it down, and they ought to focus their attention on other key priorities like modernization,” David Ransom, a tax lobbyist representing the American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights, told NOTUS in April. Prior to Intuit’s departure, ProPublica reported that code had been introduced into the company’s version of the Free File website that essentially hid the service from search engines like Google, making it nearly impossible to find without directly navigating to it.
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