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What is TeleFile?
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IRS discontinued its TeleFile program effective August 17, 2005.
TeleFile allowed taxpayers to file Forms 1040EZ, 4868, and 941 by
telephone.
TeleFile is an interactive computer program that calculates your
tax and begins the e-filing process over the phone. The IRS automatically sends a special TeleFile
tax package to those who may be eligible to use it. Only those receiving the
TeleFile tax package from the IRS can use
TeleFile. This tax year, many taxpayers who filed Form 1040EZ or filed by TeleFile last
tax year will
receive a special TeleFile tax package from the IRS that allows them to file their
tax return electronically
by phone. TeleFile is easy, fast, and free. It's available 24 hours a day, with nothing to
mail in.
The TeleFile service is only available if you file
Form 1040EZ, get the TeleFile
tax booklet (TEL-1) in the mail from the IRS, and meet the following qualifications:
 | you still live at the same address printed on your TeleFile
tax record; |
| you file your tax return as single or married filing jointly; |
| you are under 65 years of age on
January 1, 2005; |
| you had taxable income only from wages, salaries, tips, taxable scholarship or fellowship
grants; unemployment compensation; interest (less than $1,500 and no withholding
tax deduction);
Alaska Permanent Fund Dividends (no withholding tax deduction); |
| have use of a Touch-Tone telephone. (For best results, don't use cordless or cellular
phones or phones with a key pad in the receiver.) |
You cannot use TeleFile to
file your tax return if you:
| need to change your
tax return filing status, name, or address; |
| need to claim any dependents; |
| need to claim a
tax deduction(s) on your tax return for being over 65 or blind; |
| did not receive the TEL-1 tax
booklet from the IRS; |
| are filing the tax
return of a deceased taxpayer; |
| received any advance earned income
tax credit payments; |
| repaid any unemployment compensation in
2004. |
If you are eligible to use
TeleFile to file your tax return, you should complete the information provided
in the TeleFile tax booklet and then call the IRS toll-free telephone number in the
tax booklet.
The interactive computer program will instruct you on how to use the touch-tone telephone
to fill in required tax information for your tax return.
Note: Even if you use
TeleFile to file your tax return, you will be required to mail any
tax that is owed to the IRS by April 15th.
An even faster way to get your
tax refund is
to e-file your tax return
right from this web site by clicking the "Do Your Taxes ONLINE!" button below.
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Related tax
information about IRS TeleFile |
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IRS publications about IRS TeleFile:
For further information about IRS TeleFile refer to Tax Topic 255, TeleFile. Also see
IRS Publication 17, Your Federal
Income Tax. |
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