The Trump administration plans to remove the IRS 'Automatic fileThe software, the electronic unlocking system is returned directly to the free agent, according to two people who are aware of the decision.
Program organized during Joe Biden's presidency wasPraise and usersBy making the tariff taxes easier, fast and economical. But Republican lawmakers and commercial taxation companies complained about losing taxpayers' money because free storage programs are ready, though they are difficult to use.
The program was in Limbo since the start of the Trump administration as Elon Musk andState Effective DepartmentThey have made their way through the federal government. Musk wrote in February on his social media website, XThat he had “deleted” 18F, a government agent that worked on technology projects such as a direct file.
There was a hope that the musk, and his Doge team of computer software, could take the file directly and upgrade it. But the two people who are aware of the decision to finish the file automatically said his fate was clear when the IRS staff offered the plan were told in mid -March to stop working on his development for the 2026 tax season.
The two people were not authorized to publicly discuss the plans and spoke to the media associated on condition of anonymity.
Adam Ruben, vice president in the Liberal economic security project, said “the reforms were from the beginning.”
“It is anger to see daily taxpayers do not take responsibility for this decision,” he said. “Cutting costs and saving money for the family was just an empty campaign promise.”
But David Williams, president of the taxpayer's Alliance, which describes itself as an unusual organization that distributes research and analysis on government impacts on the economy, said the direct file was “problematic” from day 1, citing the cost of the program and noted that many people who started the process were not completed. According to 423,450 IRS taxpayers entered the file directly and 140,803 submitted the revenue agreed in 2024.
“From the hidden costs to taxpayer chaos, the plan is full of issues,” Williams said.
The automatic file was launched as a pilot program in 2024 after the IRS was tasked with looking at how to create a “direct file” system as part of the money received from the law to reduce inflation signed by the law by Biden in 2022.
Last May, the agency announced that the program would be made permanent.
But the IRS has faced a strong blowback to direct files from taxpayers that have made billions from payments to people using their software and have spent millionsInfluence Congress. The average American usually spends around $ 140 to organize revenue each year.
Derrick Plummer, spokesman for commercial tax preparation company Intuit,, he said in a statement that “the automatic file is there and has been the solution in finding trouble, running for important IRS resources and the loss of taxpayer dollars.”
The IRS accepted the 140,803 revenue submitted by the taxpayers using the file directly in the 12 states where it was available in the previous tariff season. It was added to include half the country this year. It is unclear how many taxpayers have used the file directly this year.
Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America, which worked with the IRS to create a government tax inclusion program for a direct file, said the decision was “a betrayal of public trust at that time the government should show its ability to provide basic services effectively.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Automatic file issuer, said in an email statement that Trump and Musk “follow the file directly because it stops large tax companies from taxpayers for services that should be free. Americans want a free and easy way to keep their tax-Trump and Musk want to take it.”
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