The last thing the IRS should be doing right now
The IRS should stay out of the tax preparation business. Before explaining why, let me tell you how we got here.
In May, the IRS released a report on the feasibility of the IRS preparing and filing tax returns. The Democrat-passed, and misnamed, Inflation Reduction Act gave the IRS $15 million to have an “independent third-party” tell Congress whether the IRS should create its own tax preparation software, called a “direct file” program.