Activist investors are eyeing wardrobe staples, and the IRS might have some good news for

taxpayers.

Motleyful money starts now.

I'm Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined over the airwaves by Motleyful Analyst Jason Moser.

Jason, thanks for joining me.

Hey Dylan, happy to be here.

Thanks for having me.

We've got an activist investor eyeing sneakers and the maker of virtual world telling

employees they need to come back in person.

But our first story today, Jason, is focused on the tax man.

The IRS announced plans to launch its own free tax filing program in 13 states next

year, and the agency expects hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to use direct file in the pilot

program.

Jason, this ends a very long period where it seemed like the IRS was very comfortable

letting other companies handle tax filing, even free tax filing for taxpayers.

Yeah, well, understandably so.

I mean, building that infrastructure is obviously very complicated when you have a lot of

companies out there that are already done it.

Sometimes it's easier to to saddle up and you build partnerships as opposed to trying

to go it on your own.

This, though, seems like a response primarily, at least, to bad behavior on the part of

Intuit.

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