Direct File, now in its second year, lets some taxpayers electronically file their returns directly with the agency for free. Some are calling for it to be discontinued, saying the price tag may not be worth it.
While today is the deadline to pay taxes, you can still file an extension.
Tax software companies like Intuit and H&R Block are turning to generative artificial intelligence to give products an edge.
Jay Zagorsky of Boston University paid his taxes in $100 bills and exact change. A cashless society has some disadvantages, he says.
And maybe a branding problem, too.
The delay provides more time for both taxpayers and the IRS, given the pressure of the pandemic.
Tax accountant Michael Durant is seeing his small business clients through a storm, but facing another at home.
Except for one or two exceptions: Victims of severe weather in parts of the South this past April will have until Oct. 15.
Tomorrow was supposed to be Tax Day. Accountants are not resting.
“It is, in a way, a map of poverty in this country,” ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel says.
