{"id":58798,"date":"2022-09-07T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=ac004808315242758b901c4f2030f8a0"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:15:44","slug":"irs-to-explore-free-electronic-tax-filing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58798","title":{"rendered":"IRS to explore free electronic tax filing system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/business-news\/1016484\/irs-to-explore-free-electronic-tax-filing-system\">The Week: Most Recent Home Page Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: In any sane country, it would already exist, and would work by displaying an already-filled-out tax form with a prompt to submit any necessary adjustments before accepting.  \nWe need to shut down some lobbying by high level tax cheats and paid-tax-prep companies to make it happen, which at this point might be a bloody process because they have metastasized.<\/div><p>The Internal Revenue Service will be taking a step toward making electronic tax filing more straightforward and accessible by studying a free option for taxpayers, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2022\/09\/07\/irs-free-efile-biden\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government tax agency will use $15 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/irs-free-file-system-expansion-one-step-closer-democrats-b2c39db83e4a95f1d1cd1aa488495256\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$80 billion<\/a>&nbsp;allotted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/08\/19\/fact-sheet-the-inflation-reduction-act-supports-workers-and-families\/#:~:text=The%20Inflation%20Reduction%20Act%20will%20protect%20Medicare%20recipients%20from%20catastrophic,for%20the%20first%20time%20ever.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> to explore a free tax filing system. This platform could provide American taxpayers with another option to file taxes beyond relying on expensive private tax preparation companies.&nbsp;While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/filing\/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRS does provide free e-filing options<\/a>, the service is barely used due to its restrictions on qualifying returns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tax preparation services have been dominated by corporations for years, forcing Americans to spend money to file obligatory taxes yearly. Democrats sought to address that issue with the passing of this bill that requires the IRS to study an in-house free option for e-filing, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2022\/09\/07\/irs-free-efile-biden\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Post<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;reports. Current and former IRS officials point to a lack of funding to explain why the government agency hasn't put a real effort into developing its e-filing system, writes the <em>Post<\/em>. This means taxpayers have relied on companies such as Intuit's TurboTax and H&amp;R Block, often incurring multiple fees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe creating a government system will give Americans reliable free options while increasing the efficiency of the IRS.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service will be taking a step toward making electronic tax filing more straight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}