THIS WEEK: Ciscomani Has Opportunity to Protect Popular Free Tax Filing Program

Ciscomani’s Republican Colleagues Want to Eliminate It

TUCSON — Congressman Juan Ciscomani will have the opportunity to break with his Republican colleagues and vote to protect the IRS’s new free-filing program that was piloted in Arizona last year and will be expanded nationwide next year.

On Thursday, the powerful House Appropriations Committee that Ciscomani sits on will vote to appropriate funding for the IRS next year, and Republicans added a policy rider that would eliminate the free filing program. 

“Arizonans are facing high costs and they like that they can now file their taxes for free instead of paying a major corporation to let them do it,” said Andrea Moreno, Executive Director of Honest Arizona. “Congressman Juan Ciscomani should side with Arizonans and vote against any measure that eliminates the direct file program that makes tax filing free.”

During the 2024 tax season, more than 14,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through the direct file program and saved an estimated $5.6 million in filing costs. 

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