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Rhiannon12866

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Thu Nov 20, 2025, 10:35 PM Thursday

The Cost of Filing Your Taxes Could Go Up. Why? - Senator Elizabeth Warren



It may cost you more money to file your taxes this year.

Have you ever used TurboTax? If you have, you know how expensive and annoying filing your taxes with them can be.

That’s why—after years of organizing and pressure—the IRS started a program last year called Direct File, to make filing your taxes easy and free directly with the IRS.

This month, the Trump administration officially ended it.

Now, Trump doesn’t just want to make life worse for you to enrich a few tax prep companies. At the same time they’re making it more expensive for you to file your taxes, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are bending over backwards to make the tax code work better for the rich and powerful everywhere. - 11/20/2025.

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The Cost of Filing Your Taxes Could Go Up. Why? - Senator Elizabeth Warren (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Thursday OP
Free File still exists. Use it. Direct File was experiment that had less than 400K out of 160M users. Silent Type Thursday #1
Thanks! Rhiannon12866 Thursday #2

Silent Type

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1. Free File still exists. Use it. Direct File was experiment that had less than 400K out of 160M users.
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 10:40 PM
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Probably could have improved it, but not sure it was worth it.

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