IRS Direct File to Stay This Tax Filing Season, Bessent Says

The IRS’s expanding free digital tax-filing tool will stay in effect for the tax filing season starting later this month, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Treasury Department promised members of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.

“I will commit that for this tax season that Direct File will be operative and the American taxpayers who choose to use it will,” hedge fund founder Scott Bessent said during his confirmation hearing, in response to a question from the panel’s ranking member, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

Bessent didn’t commit to keeping the program in place for future tax years. Congressional ...