Press Release: Alliance for IRS Accountability Issues Statement Commending the End of the IRS Direct File Program
WASHINGTON, DC (November 6, 2025) — The Alliance for IRS Accountability (AIA) commends this week’s announcement that the Internal Revenue Service’s Direct File program will not be available in 2026. With no launch date set for the future, this announcement signifies a welcome end to the duplicative and wasteful program.
AIA President & CEO Chuck Flint issued the following statement in response:
“The end of the IRS’s Direct File program is a major victory for taxpayers and government accountability. This scheme was always about power. Allowing the program to continue would have given the agency unilateral power to serve as tax preparer, collector, and enforcer, not to mention providing unelected bureaucrats with dangerous control over Americans’ personal finances and tax data.
“As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted, the private sector can do a better job at providing trusted and efficient tax-filing options. In 2024, the IRS spent more than five times per return what it costs most taxpayers to use existing, private options. Ending Direct File puts a stop to the unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars and checks deep state bureaucrats’ dangerous consolidation of power.”
AIA is committed to protecting taxpayers from IRS abuses and returning the agency to its stated mission of service. With its cost overruns, performance issues, and lack of transparency, Direct File exemplified government overreach and waste, and the end of the program is a welcome development for taxpayers across the country.
###
The Alliance for IRS Accountability (AIA) is dedicated to protecting taxpayers and small businesses. The IRS is broken and operates with unchecked power. This has led to abusive enforcement practices and regulatory overreach that have unfairly targeted hard-working American taxpayers and business owners. AIA is building a broad alliance that will create a fair, transparent, and law-abiding agency that is accountable to individual Americans and businesses.
MEDIA CONTACT
Chuck Flint, CEO of the Alliance for IRS Accountability