The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that as a result of the agency’s historic modernization efforts, the country’s 2025 tax season will begin on Monday, January 27, 2025, with more and better tools to assist taxpayers.
More than 140 million individual tax returns for the 2024 tax year are expected to be filed by the federal deadline of Tuesday, April 15.
More than half of all tax returns are expected to be filed this year with the help of a tax professional, and the Internal Revenue Service advises people to hire a reputable tax expert to avoid potential scams and fraud.
The IRS has confirmed that the tax filing season is about to begin
According to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, the Internal Revenue Service has made historic progress, and this season, taxpayers will have access to more tools and features to help them with their tax filing.
We’ve made significant progress in improving the IRS’s services for taxpayers, but there’s still work to be done. More investment in the country’s tax system will yield greater results.
The IRS will continue to update and add new features and capabilities to help taxpayers during the 2025 tax season.
Improvements since the previous tax season include easier access to tax account information via voice and text virtual assistants, more features in the IRS Individual Online Account, easier access to dozens of tax forms via tablets and smartphones, and increased alerts for fraud and scams that threaten taxpayers.
Furthermore, the IRS improved last year’s Direct File service, making it more accessible and feature rich. Direct File will be accessible to taxpayers in 25 states beginning January 27 of this year.
Furthermore, the Internal Revenue Service Free File program is now only available on IRS.gov, giving millions of taxpayers across the country access to free software solutions provided by reputable IRS Free File Partners.
The Internal Revenue Service plans to extend the tax filing seasons for 2023 and 2024 with additional resources.
The number of taxpayers served at Taxpayer Assistance Centers across the country has increased significantly over the last two filing seasons, with service levels of approximately 85% and average wait times of less than five minutes on major phone lines.
The agency will strive to deliver comparable performance levels on these critical service measures during the next filing season, taking into account existing plans and funding levels.

This year, taxpayers with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $84,000 or less in 2024 will be able to access online guided tax software programs from eight commercial sector partners. One partner will also offer a Spanish-language option.
According to IRS Free File providers, taxpayers can prepare and file returns now and have them held until they can e-file during the official tax filing season, which begins later this month. Many other software providers offer similar options.
Internal Revenue Service head to resign as Donald Trump takes office
When President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Monday, the head of the Internal Revenue Service informed the agency’s staff on Friday that he will resign.
Despite having three years remaining on his term, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel resigned, preventing Trump from dismissing him. If Werfel had not resigned, he would have been fired.
In December, Trump chose Billy Long, a former Republican representative from Missouri, to lead the tax agency.
In a letter to agency employees obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Werfel stated that it would have been difficult to predict the types of disruptions that would have resulted from attempting to remain in office during Long’s confirmation process.
In an effort to keep politics out of tax enforcement, a 1998 reform bill gave Internal Revenue Service commissioners five-year terms, and the commissioner and chief counsel are the agency’s only political appointees.
Since the 1998 reform, every president has kept the same commissioner, including Trump during his first term. John Kelly, Trump’s then-White House chief of staff, claimed that during his first term, Trump attempted to use the IRS as a weapon against his political opponents.
However, invasive audits of former top FBI officials occurred by accident, according to a Treasury Department watchdog study.
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