Rain’s platform enables employers to boost employee satisfaction and retention by making it easy to integrate with payroll and offer instant access to earned wages. Powered by a new partnership with april, workforces using Rain can now also file their taxes quickly, easily, and accurately and completely free.

Workers already using Rain can access their paychecks faster at no cost, avoiding costly overdraft fees and high-interest loans. Their app then provides budgeting tools and guidance to help workers achieve their financial goals. 

According to Rain, 63% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. For many such workers, tax refunds are the largest deposit they’ll receive all year. According to the IRS, the average refund last year grew to $3,167. But filing has historically been costly and tedious, delaying access to the much-needed refund and costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

Thanks to Rain’s new partnership with april, workers can file their taxes within the app completely free, while getting a maximum tax refund guarantee¹ and live support. Workers can utilize the data they’ve already shared within Rain to file faster and more accurately, getting their refund sooner. april uses data imported and added to intelligently skip questions and save the user time, enabling an average time to file of just 40 minutes last year.

For workers that must file federal and state returns with 1099 income, the partnership can save them more than $100 compared to other tax filing platforms.

"We’re excited to partner with Rain, an incredible platform for employers that want to take care of their workforces,” said Ben Borodach, CEO and Co-Founder of april. “Tax filing has long been a frustrating and costly thorn in the side of the working class. It’s time to transform tax into a critical ingredient to their financial wellness instead.”