Want the IRS to do your taxes for free? The Direct File program will be available soon in these 12 states.

The Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-prep platform will soon be open for business. After slowly increasing capacity on its Direct File platform, the IRS will make the platform available to a wider audience on Monday, the agency said.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 Hamps