new this morning a new push to shut down the irs's pilot program Direct file the free online program is available to thousands of Florida taxpayers but as new six investigator Mike hofeld explains the state's Chief Financial Officer is now urging government officials to shut it down I just hate wasting taxpayer dollars period Mike Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis raising a major objection to direct file a free IRS online tax preparation service doesn't free sound better as new 6 first reported the pil
ot tax program is being offered in 12 States including Florida IRS commissioner Daniel wle recently telling reporters direct file has generated a lot of attention news so far and the results are encouraging but we're not done we want to get through April 15th but petronis and State financial officers in 18 states wrote a letter urging treasury secretary Janet Yellen and commissioner wle to terminate direct file once that program wraps up simply put they don't want an oncore it just gets me a lot
of concerns this is more overreached by big government wasting taxpayer dollars for services nobody's asking for petronis and his colleagu cite a recent independent Federal survey that found only 28% of taxpayers were very interested in using the service in fact when told state income tax returns were not included 60% said they'd use their current tax software this is a multi-billion dollar solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist Mike hoffeld getting results News 6
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