Starting this year, people can file their taxes for free via the Internal Revenue Service’s website.

Up until now, the IRS has only allowed people making less than $52,000 a year to e-file for free. Just about everyone else had to use a tax preparer or buy software.

But Senator Charles Schumer recently brokered a deal that allows everyone to use the free IRS site, saying that filing taxes online instead of on paper costs the government less money and reduces errors.

New Yorkers spent $70 million on e-file fees last year, something that Schumer says people can no longer afford.

More information is available at www.irs.gov/efile. [Tax day is April 15.]

(Source: NY1)