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1/ $160 and 9 hours. That’s what filing taxes costs the average American, not in taxes, in fees to private companies that have spent decades lobbying to keep the system complicated. 🧵⬇️ 🔗 economicsecurityproject.org/resource/the...

economicsecurityproject.orgThe Future of Tax Filing - Economic Security ProjectTable of Contents Chapter 1: The story of Direct File and tax access reform in the Biden Administration Chapter 2: Direct File and data import / pre-population Chapter 3: Direct File and tax scope Cha...

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12 May

2/ In 2024, Direct File proved it didn’t have to be this way. Free, no middleman, 94% satisfaction. Then it was shut down.

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12 May

3/ We documented what worked, what we learned, and what comes next in our new report. Our Tax Filing Fellows built a roadmap for how a future administration can bring it back and make it too essential to ever take away again.

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4/4 Read the full report: economicsecurityproject.org/resource/the...