{"id":10052,"date":"2026-01-27T03:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:04:45","slug":"how-to-file-your-taxes-for-free-in-2026-4-ways-to-do-it-despite-direct-files-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/?p=10052","title":{"rendered":"How to file your taxes for free in 2026 &#8211; 4 ways to do it (despite Direct File&#8217;s demise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The IRS&#8217;s Direct File Service is no more, but most taxpayers can use one of these free options to prepare their 2025 returns &#8211; even if you itemize deductions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS&#8217;s Direct File Service is no more, but most taxpayers can use one of these free options to prepare their 2025 returns &#8211; even if you itemize deductions.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/?p=10052\" class=\"btn frontech-btn\"><span><\/span>Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/levelupit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}