The US Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Wisconsin is the next state to join the IRS Direct File for Filing Season 2025 on 21 August 2024.
IRS Direct File was made possible by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which provided new resources for the IRS to improve customer service and ensure taxpayers claim the benefits and deductions for which they are eligible.
Following a successful Pilot Program in 12 states that saw 140,000 taxpayers claim more than USD 90 million in refunds and save an estimated USD 5.6 million in filing costs using the new free online filing tool, the Treasury and the IRS announced the expansion of Direct File as a permanent offering.
Treasury and the IRS have been working with interested states to offer Direct File to their taxpayers with Wisconsin becoming the latest new state to join the 12 pilot states, following Oregon, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Connecticut, and North Carolina. More than 600,000 Wisconsinites will be eligible to use the free online tax filing tool this coming Filing Season.
Direct File is central to the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to deliver modern, world-class customer service using Inflation Reduction Act resources. Direct File also advances a goal of the IRS’s Strategic Operation Plan (SOP) to ensure that taxpayers receive tax credits that they are eligible for, including the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.
