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2020 tax season comes to a screeching halt

irs web traffic surges 22%.

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by beth bellor

if you’re looking for bright spots as the united states deals with the global pandemic, avert your eyes from the irs.

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although average refunds and website visits are up, everything else is down – in the case of e-filings by tax professionals, down 20.1 percent. yeowch.
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busy season management

the tax season 2020 dumpster fire

coronavirus crushes tax prep.

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by beth bellor

slammed by the covid-19 crisis, tax season 2020 has gone off the rails.

tax return filing activity is trending down, and who can blame filers? with an automatic three-month extension, those who owe taxes have no incentive to file anytime soon. and practitioners are consumed with protecting their firms and rescuing their clients.

more: tax pros fall behind 6.2% in returns filed | tax pros trail by 908,000 returns | tax pro irs filings lag by 532,000 | tax pro e-filings lag by 512,000 returns | tax pros kick into high gear | slow start for tax pro e-filing | data points down as tax season opens | the fight for new tax clients
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that may be impacting numbers for e-filings by tax professionals, which are down in double digits. perhaps those whose dealings are complex enough to need assistance are seeking appointments in june now.
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busy season management

tax pros fall behind 6.2% in returns filed

self-preparers, website visits and average refunds the only bright spots.

by beth bellor

the year-to-year gap in professional tax preparations continues to grow, stretching past 2.9 million in this oddest of seasons.

more: tax pros trail by 908,000 returns | tax pro irs filings lag by 532,000 | tax pro e-filings lag by 512,000 returns | tax pros kick into high gear
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the irs had received 90.6 million individual income returns, down 2.4 percent from the same period a year ago, as of the week ending march 27, the latest data released. it had processed 87 million returns, down 3.6 percent.
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pre-covid-19, accounting profession hits new highs

we’ll be comparing apples to zebras for a while.

by beth bellor

what a difference a month makes. the accounting profession set several new records in the latest employment figures … but.

for our analysis on the covid-19 impact on the profession, see planning for the coronavirus recession

that “but,” of course, is the global pandemic. the numbers almost seemed dated as soon as they were released, because we know many of those gains quickly melted away.
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busy season management

tax pros trail by 908,000 returns

e-filing pace lags 2.2% from year-ago, but professionals hang on to market share.

by beth bellor

coronavirus has changed much of society as we know it, but taxes remain a certainty.

more: tax pro irs filings lag by 532,000 | tax pro e-filings lag by 512,000 returns | tax pros kick into high gear | slow start for tax pro e-filing | data points down as tax season opens | the fight for new tax clients
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total returns, e-filings and average refunds are up, although tax pros are e-filing slower than last year.
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tax pro irs filings lag by 532,000

self-prepared up by 5 million.

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by beth bellor

even as coronavirus races across the globe, tax professionals appear to be gaining ground on busy season 2020.

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at last count, tax practitioners handled more than half of efiled returns, though that’s still behind last year by 532,000 returns. self-prepared returns are up by 5 million as taxpayers race to collect their refunds.

busy season management

tax pro e-filings lag by 512,000 returns

as do-it-yourselfers surge by more than a million.

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how does this year’s busy season compare to last year’s?
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by beth bellor

tax professionals are losing their share of the e-filing market this tax season, dropping to 48.5 percent of all returns e-filed, down slightly more than one percentage point from the same time last year.

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the irs had received 68 million individual income tax returns as of march 6 – the latest data available – up 0.4 percent from the same period in 2019. the agency had processed 65 million returns, down 0.5 percent.
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tax pros kick into high gear

cumulative statistics comparing 2/22/2019 and 2/21/2020, irs

profession accelerates e-flings, but struggles for market share.

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by beth bellor

tax professionals are increasing their share of the e-filing market as we plow deeper into tax season. after starting at 34.6 percent and nudging up to 38.1, the latest figure is a healthier 44.3 percent of e-filings, although that’s about a point lower than the year-ago date.

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the irs, which delayed release of the figures, had received 49.9 million individual income tax returns as of the week ending feb. 21, the latest data available. that’s down from the same period last year, but only by 0.1 percent. meanwhile, it had processed 48.1 million returns, up 0.7 percent.
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headcounts dip by 3,500 in tax & accounting

hourly earnings hit new high.

by beth bellor

cpa firms and payroll agencies are trimming their headcounts going into busy season 2020, according to new data obtained by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 highlights:

current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax and cpa segments of the industry (all data seasonally adjusted)
average hourly wages for key segments
typical hours worked per week
trends concerning women in the accounting workforce

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slow start for tax pro e-filing

tax pro market share down 409,000 from year-ago.

by beth bellor

as of the week ending feb. 7, the latest data available, the internal revenue service had received 28.7 million individual income tax returns, down 0.4 percent from the same week last year. it had processed 27.5 million, down 2.1 percent.

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the irs had processed 96.1 percent of returns received.

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data points down as tax season opens

diys, refunds are up.

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by beth bellor

filings were behind last year’s marks as tax season opened, according to the irs, and pros handled about 35 percent of e-filings.

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the internal revenue service received 15.8 million individual income tax returns for the week ending jan. 31 – the first of the season and just five days long – down by 1.6 percent from the year before. it had processed 12.9 million returns, down 2.7 percent, for a processing rate of 82 percent.
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the fight for new tax clients

and will refunds reverse their downward trend?

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by beth bellor

the irs is about to roll out its first filing statistics of 2020, but before it does, let’s recap 2019.

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first, the market share: how many individual income tax returns were filed, and how many of those were touched by accountants?
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tax & accounting headcounts hit record high

records set in several segments.

by beth bellor

with year-end employment figures in, it remains a great time to be an accountant.
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by the numbers

in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 highlights:

current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax and cpa segments of the industry (all data seasonally adjusted)
average hourly wages for key segments
typical hours worked per week
trends concerning women in the accounting workforce

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2020 tax season comes to a screeching halt

the tax season 2020 dumpster fire

tax pros fall behind 6.2% in returns filed

pre-covid-19, accounting profession hits new highs

tax pros trail by 908,000 returns

tax pro irs filings lag by 532,000

see: all 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 special coronavirus coverage

tax pro e-filings lag by 512,000 returns

tax pros kick into high gear

headcounts dip by 3,500 in tax & accounting

slow start for tax pro e-filing

data points down as tax season opens

the fight for new tax clients

tax & accounting headcounts hit record high