Irs Paperless By 2025. This tax season, millions more americans will be eligible to file their federal taxes for free using the irs’s new direct file software. By 2025, the irs plans to achieve paperless processing for all tax returns, still accepting paper documents but immediately digitizing them, to.

Most taxpayers will have the option of going entirely paperless starting with the 2025 filing season. The irs paperless processing initiative seeks to mitigate the impacts of paper submissions and reduce the burden of paper filing on taxpayers.