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by confident_inept 826 days ago
Directly filing your taxes in the US was currently mail-in only until this pilot originated.

Intuit and the likes have lobbied with their millions to make sure the average citizen can only e-file with a few select proprietary options and it has been that way for as long as most anyone remembers.

This opens the gates for what might be (I didn't look much into the site) an easy way to e-file directly with the IRS.
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eel 826 days ago
The IRS does have an option for tax payers to electronically fill and file those mail-in forms directly. [0] No printing or mailing required, and there's no income limit. It's called Free File Fillable Forms, and I've used it for the past 4 tax years.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

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