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For the 2024 tax season yes. Funding bill removes it for 2025 onward.


Sigh. How much did cutting direct file really save?!


Irrelevant. Those in power don't actually care about saving money. They care about doing what their deep-pocketed donors want them to do, as well as fulfilling their ideology, however misguided and backward it may be.


It was never about saving. The new budget literally adds $2.4 trillion to the federal defecit.


It adds $2.4T MORE than otherwise would've been added (which is already a lot) over a decade.

So it's adding an extra $240B in deficit per year (on top of an already ~6-7% of GDP deficit).


It was cut because tax preparing companies pay the politicians to cut it.


It makes it more expensive. But the important figure was the million dollar bribe.


Yes, but you may want to reword this part, since it implies that DF is already shut down:

  "The IRS will no longer accept returns directly."


> "The IRS will no longer accept returns directly."

Where are you finding that quote, I don't see it on the Direct File homepage [0]

EDIT: Ah, I see now, it was from paxys's original post [1], I assumed it was meant to be an official quote from the IRS somewhere.

0: https://directfile.irs.gov/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183593


This was in the post I was responding to.


I'm confused, the post you responded just says:

> For the 2024 tax season yes. Funding bill removes it for 2025 onward.





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