Want free tax prep from the IRS? The Direct File program is now available in these 12 states.

The Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-prep platform is open for business. After slowly increasing capacity on its Direct File platform, the IRS made the platform available to a wider audience on Monday. The platform is expected to be fully up and running on March 12. The pilot program can only prepare relatively basic tax returns, and it will only be available to eligible taxpayers in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, T