IRS Announces Jan. 27 Start to 2025 Tax Filing Season

The 2025 tax filing season starts on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 for Form 1040 filers, and will feature expanded and enhanced tools to help taxpayers as a result of the agency’s historic modernization efforts.

These improvements include:

• Expanding Direct File to 25 states.
• More in-person help.
• High levels of service on main taxpayer phone lines.
• Mobile-friendly tax forms.
• Virtual assistants to help with refunds, other questions.

Businesses can sign up for an IRS Business Tax Account to make filing taxes easier and help protect their tax information. Taxpayers can use online account for individuals if they file personal tax returns.

For taxpayers who will file with the help of a tax professional, the IRS urges them to use a trusted tax pro to avoid potential scams and schemes.

The Get Ready page on IRS.gov highlights steps taxpayers can take now to streamline the filing process. It also has many resources to help taxpayers before, during and after filing their federal tax return.

Find more info, including details on these topics, in the start of filing season announcement.

Other Tax News

The standard mileage rate for vehicles driven for business will increase by 3 cents in 2025. The mileage rates for vehicles used for other purposes will remain unchanged from 2024.

The updated standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck are:

• 70 cents per mile driven for business use.
• 21 cents per mile driven for medical purposes.
• 21 cents per mile driven for moving purposes for qualified active-duty members of the Armed Forces.
• 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations.

The rates apply to fully electric and hybrid automobiles, as well as gas and diesel powered vehicles.

Notice 2025-5 contains the optional 2025 standard mileage rates, as well as the maximum automobile cost used to calculate mileage reimbursement allowances under a fixed-and variable rate plan.

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