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I totally agree that making you pay to file when it should be free is scummy, but the linked article completely ignores that the first non-ad result is from the

• wccrawford 6y ago
  No it doesn't. Keep reading the article and they cover that.
  • fatnoah 6y ago
    They do, but perhaps the IRS has since changed things, since what I see on that link is not what is pictured in the article. (Ok, I see the article is from 2019, which is why it's so different)
• solumos 6y ago
  No, they talk about it in-depth about half-way down. > The fifth link, a government site, looked like it would take us to the actual Free File program. > > But not so fast! When we clicked, and then clicked through to a second page, we found a whole new set of choices and restrictions. Each of the 12 companies that have signed on to the deal with the IRS offer their own Free File product. But they all have different requirements based on age, income and location.