tax pros handling 54.3% of e-filings, down 2 points from year ago.
by beth bellor
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the pace of 2019 remains behind that of 2018 on most counts as the tax season stumbles to a close.
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the irs had received 92.9 million individual income tax returns as of the week ending march 29, the last data available, down 1.4 percent from the same period last year. it had processed 90.3 million returns, down 2 percent.
the irs’ processing rate was 97.2 percent.
e-filing receipts
e-filing receipts totaled 87.3 million, statistically flat from last year’s rate with only 40,000 fewer filings.
tax professionals filed 47.4 million of those receipts, down 2 percent. self-filers handled 39.9 million, up 2.3 percent.
the pros were retaining their edge, with 54.3 percent of e-filed returns.
website visits
visits to irs.gov continued to trend up, this week up 10.4 percent to 358.1 million. ‘cause it’s not like a phone call was going to get anyone answers.
refunds
total refunds numbered 71.8 million, down 2.2 percent, and the total amount of $206.2 billion was down 2.9 percent. at $2,873, the average refund was down 0.7 percent.
direct deposit refunds numbered 64.3 million, up 0.6 percent, and the total amount of $192.4 billion was down 0.7 percent. at $2,995, the average direct deposit refund was down 1.4 percent.
direct deposit made up 89.5 percent of all refunds. the average direct deposit refund was 4.3 percent higher than the average overall refund.