Tax season 2023 is well underway, but the Internal Revenue Service is mulling over the possibility of a more efficient and free way for taxpayers to file in the future.

A possible free e-filing system from the IRS is likely years away, but taxpayers have nevertheless been sharing what they would want from this hypothetical system, and the IRS is already looking into how it could create its own online e-filing system. The agency is expected to deliver a report to Congress this May, according to the Hill.

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“I received some mail from Medicare and it was confusing to me," Ilene Miklos, a New York resident and family lawyer, told the outlet. "It was contradictory. And when I spoke to a human on the phone, they couldn’t explain it to me at all. Then I went into my own account, and I went, ‘Oh, now I understand it.’ It was actually better online.”

The report the IRS will submit to Congress will investigate how much such a filing program would cost and how taxpayers would feel about using it. To help with the IRS's report analysis, the agency has recruited Ariel Jurow Kleiman, a Loyola Marymount University law school professor.

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Included in the proposal is a section on identity verification — a growing concern in an increasingly digital age. Once a filer's identification is confirmed, they would then fill out tax forms that are already partially complete, as information from the previous tax years that has remained unchanged would simply roll over to the next.

As for how this would affect the business of tax filing, Miklos notes that the IRS's free e-filing system "might actually save a lot of money" and would possibly put tax filing companies "out of business.” The two biggest tax filing companies in the industry, which could also be the most affected by the IRS's program, are Intuit, which controls 22.1% of the market, and H&R Block, which controls 19.6% of it.