average refunds remain positive even as totals are in the red.
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with less than a week to go, tax processing slowed slightly.
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the irs had received 118.6 million individual income tax returns as of april 13, the latest data available. that’s up 0.1 percent from the same week in 2017. it had processed 114.8 million of those, down 0.2 percent.
the processing rate slipped a bit to 96.8 percent.
e-filings totaled 109 million, up 0.4 percent. tax professionals prepared 63 million of those returns, down 0.6 percent, and self-preparers handled 46 million, up 1.8 percent.
pros processed 57.8 percent of e-filings, increasing their market share even though their total number fell.
visits to irs.gov soared as expected, at 363.1 million reaching 23.5 percent higher than last year.
total refunds numbered 86 million, down 1.7 percent, with a total amount of $243.6 billion running down 1.1 percent. the average refund of $2,831 was up 0.6 percent.
direct deposit refunds numbered 73.5 billion, down 1.6 percent, with the total amount of $219.4 billion coming in down 1.3 percent. the average direct deposit refund of $2,986 is up 0.3 percent.
refund recipients use direct deposit 85.4 percent of the time.