The IRS has faced intense blowback to Direct File from private tax preparation companies that have made billions from ...

Though some social media users interpreted Elon Musk's X post as meaning the service was closed, its website remained active ...

Elon Musk, head of the chaos-causing Department of Government Efficiency, made an assertion this week that raised questions in some people’s minds about the status of the IRS Direct File program. That ...

In recent days, a tweet from Elon Musk on X (formerly known as Twitter) stirred up quite a bit of confusion. Musk claimed to ...

T he IRS Direct File program, which allows eligible taxpayers in 25 states to file their taxes for free on the IRS’s website, ...

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted on his social media site that he has “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as the IRS's Direct File program ...

Read More: Trump and Musk Have All of Washington on Edge—Just Like They Wanted As of Monday evening, 18F’s website was still operational, as was the Direct File website. But the digital ...

it is unclear at the time of this reporting if Musk affected any real world "deletion" of 18F, its office, or its employees. Their removal, if real, is not necessarily the end of Direct File ...

As of Monday evening, 18F’s website was still operational, as was the Direct File website. But the digital services agency’s X account was deleted. The IRS announced last year that it will ...

The original X post, which Musk was responding to, said 18F built the "Direct File" service that “puts the government in charge of preparing peoples (sic) tax returns for them.” The ...

Elon Musk, head of the chaos-causing Department of Government Efficiency, made an assertion this week that raised questions in some people’s minds about the status of the IRS Direct File program.

Despite the unambiguous brevity of the comment and the removal of its X profile, it appears that the 18F website and Direct File tool remain active and the latter is reportedly still accepting the ...