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A government program made tax filing free and more efficient. Musk and DOGE may get rid of it anyway

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A government program made tax filing free and more efficient.

The IRS Direct File program is an electronic tax return filing system that the IRS made permanent last year .

The fate of the program's fate remains unclear as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency cleave their way through the bureaucracy.

DOGE is reported to have access to some of the IRS ' internal systems.

Grover Norquist , president of Americans for Tax Reform, said the IRS never got explicit permission from Congress to create the Direct File system.

Democratic lawmakers in January asked Bessent and IRS commissioner nominee Billy Long to preserve the program.