Washington Edition

IRS Takes a First Step Into E-Filing for This Year’s Tax Returns

The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington.

Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, Big Take DC senior producer Naomi Shavin previews the podcast about the new IRS e-filing program. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

After decades of letting private tax software giants like Intuit’s TurboTax dominate the e-filing process, the IRS has finally joined the chat.