{"id":1770,"date":"2025-08-01T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:58:27","slug":"irs-free-file-is-gone-according-to-agency-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/irs-free-file-is-gone-according-to-agency-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS free file is &#039;gone&#039; according to agency leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/irs-free-file-is-gone-according-to-agency-leader_yszf.640.jpg\">Democrats say Trump is ending the program to benefit companies like Intuit and H&amp;R Block.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS&#8217;s free Direct File program \u2014 a new initiative that allowed taxpayers to complete their taxes using free, guided tax software approved by the federal agency \u2014 is no more, following a push by the Trump administration to axe the service as part of his <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech-industry\/56291\/the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-would-ban-states-from-regulating-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Big \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats say Trump is ending the program to benefit companies like Intuit and H&amp;R Block. The IRS&#8217;s free Direct File program \u2014 a new initiative that allowed taxpayers to complete their taxes using free, guided tax software approved by the federal agency \u2014 is no more, following a push by the Trump administration to axe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}