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Musk Says He’s ‘Deleted’ Popular Free IRS Tax Filing Program

The online tax filing option on the IRS website had a strong bipartisan 76% approval rating from registered voters.

President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he had dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program—suggesting that he effectively fired the staff who worked on the popular program. The billionaire revealed that he “deleted” the group of individuals who oversaw the system that allows Americans to easily file their taxes for free on the IRS website. The IRS-run free and simplified tax filing option had 76% approval from registered voters based on a 2023 poll by Navigator. The poll by Navigator showed that the support for the “Direct eFile” tool was highest amongst tax filers who earn less than $50k (77%), tax filers between 18 and 34 (81%, and tax fliers who are Black (80%), the Economic Security Project reported. After a right-wing influencer with 942.4 followers called out the “direct file” tax program as a “far-left government-wide computer office,” created by Elizabeth Warren on X, Musk responded simply: “That group has been deleted.”