The Associating Press WASHINGTON -- The IRS took some of the sting out of an annual tax chore Tuesday and made free tax preparation programs available to virtually every taxpayer through a partnership ...

The deadline for filing federal tax returns for tax year 2024 is April 15, 2025. If you haven't filed yet, you might be able to do so for free online through the IRS Free File portal, which offers ...

The IRS stopped accepting electronically filed tax returns Wednesday because of problems with some of its computer systems. The outage could affect refunds, but the agency said it doesn't anticipate ...

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to mandate a new electronic fingerprinting process for e-file applications for tax practitioners starting Sept. 25. In an email Wednesday to tax professionals, ...

State Representative Kim Rose (D-Milford) is advising constituents to take advantage of free tax preparation services available through the IRS Free File program. Since the beginning of 2003, IRS Free ...

Most taxpayers and tax preparers this year will use IRS e-file to file their tax returns or get extensions of time to file. In the process they will not have to send a single scrap of paper to the ...

The Internal Revenue Service alerted tax professionals Wednesday about a dangerous new phishing scam in which a cybercriminal is sending emails claiming to come from the IRS in an effort to steal ...

Electronic tax filing refers to various systems that enable individuals and small businesses to file their tax returns and make tax payments through electronic data transfer. In 1996, the Internal ...

The Internal Revenue Service suffered a "hardware failure" on Wednesday afternoon, which left many of its tax processing systems unavailable Wednesday night, the agency announced in a statement. The ...