What will Tax Day look like in 2026? The Washington Post asked people inside the IRS, in the tax community and in the Trump administration to play it out.

A senior Treasury official told BI Direct File was a failed and disappointing program used by only a small fraction of the nation's taxpayers.

That scanning is key to the heaviest technological lift Trump’s IRS is attempting, building what’s called a “unified API layer.” You really don’t need to know what that is or does — only that it will ...