Summary
Elon Musk claimed on X that he eliminated the IRS team responsible for the “Direct File” program, which allows Americans to file taxes online for free.
His statement was in response to a right-wing MAGA influencer who called the “direct file” tax program a “far-left government-wide computer office” built by Elizabeth Warren.
Thus far, the website remains active.
How it works is people calculate what they owe minus their deductions with aditional forms to account for situations that apply to them and then submit the necessary forms but a very large majority of the USA couldnt even be bothered to vote against Trump so clearly they’re too stupid to do their taxes. They file separately for state and federal but the forms are roughly all the same.
People pay to have somebody else do it for them or have a program which goes over things in very simple terms.
All of this despite the federal already knowing what you owe and how much you paid.
A handful of states had a system that allowed people to use a free online simplified process, but not all, as it was still being tested.