{"slug": "how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return", "title": "How an AI agent can e-file a tax return", "summary": "A developer built Terminal Tax, a hosted MCP server at mcp.terminal.tax that lets AI agents submit a person's tax numbers for calculation and validation, then returns a private link where the individual reviews, signs and e-files the return themselves. The design keeps SSNs and signing PINs off the chat channel, since only Authorized IRS e-file Providers can transmit returns to the IRS and no public e-file API exists for agents to call directly.", "body_md": "If you've asked an AI agent to \"send my return to the IRS,\" you've probably watched it go looking for an IRS e-file API that doesn't exist. Only Authorized IRS e-file Providers can send returns to the IRS, so an agent can't post a 1040 there directly.\n\nI built Terminal Tax (terminal.tax) to be that last step. It's a hosted MCP server at [https://mcp.terminal.tax/v1/hosted-mcp](https://mcp.terminal.tax/v1/hosted-mcp). No API key or install, so any agent that can make a web request can call it.\n\nThe agent sends the person's tax numbers. We calculate and check the return and send back one private link. The person opens it, reviews the return, and signs it themselves, and then we e-file it. Their SSN and signing PIN go on that page, never in the chat.\n\nThe exact requests are at [https://terminal.tax/llms.txt](https://terminal.tax/llms.txt).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/maxwelldubin/how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return-1co1", "published_at": "2026-10-27 12:09:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-27 12:12:08.559990+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Terminal Tax", "IRS", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-an-ai-agent-can-e-file-a-tax-return.jsonld"}}