On 2026-01-25, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, January 25, 2026 12:37:15 PM Bigsy Bohr wrote: >> I went to the IRS Free File page for this year (I'm very late to this >> party, but whatever) and one of the sites is inaccessible from here >> (France). > > Two things to be aware of: > > * I'm not clear on the details, but the capabilities or availability of > the > "real" free tax app is being restricted since Trump took office (and last > year, > iiuc (I didn't use it) it was restricted to 5 or so specific states). So, > even if it was still available, you might not be able to use it if your > residence is France. (By "real" I mean the one that the Irs STARTED TO ROLL > out under Biden and is, afaik, not associated with any commercial tax > preparer.)
The one the IRS started to roll out under Biden has been discontinued. I don't care about states; I don't live in any and have no tax liability in any. Free File Fillable Forms is available for those who are ready to do there taxes "by hand" (if you wish to e-file, which I do, because I'm not mailing stuff in from here). But Free File Fillable Forms is currently unreachable from France. As far as open tax solver goes, they are not ready yet (no 2025 software) and fail to mention which forms they support, which is an enormous *lacune* and bummer, because people don't want to download, untar, and install some foreign software only to discover it does not support the arcane and tedious IRS forms with which we expatriates are sadly too familiar.
