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by billhendricksjr 4145 days ago
There are many. The top 14 are members of the Free File Alliance[0]. There are tens, if not hundreds more that do federal filing. Unfortunately many are cheap clones of TurboTax or re-skinned versions of Drake[1].

Disclosure - I'm the CEO of Common Form[2]. My co-founders and I are all ex-Intuit employees. We currently only cover the 1040EZ, but we're expanding as fast as we can.

[0] http://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp?ck

[1] https://www.1040.com/

[2] https://common-form.com

edit: formatting.

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I'm surprised there are so many, I would have expected that keeping up with the changes in the tax law would be a pretty expensive barrier to entry, especially given the IRS sometimes isn't totally sure themselves. Although it seems like the vast majority focus only on the 1040EZ which I guess radically simplifies things.