The IRS will test a free agency-run online tax-filing tool, following a highly-anticipated report on the feasibility of such a system, IRS and Treasury Department officials said Tuesday.
Details of the pilot, including who would be eligible, are still being determined. It’s not expected to include prepopulating tax returns, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said. The goal is to run the pilot program during filing season next year, he said.
The announcement comes on the day the IRS submitted a report to Congress, mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, on the cost of developing and running a “direct efile” system.
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