tax professionals accelerate filing pace as busy season heads for the home stretch
still: everything down but refunds.
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e-filing
individual tax filings still lag behind 2016
more e-filings handled by pros, but not by a large margin.
by beth bellor
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how much difference can four days make? or are there other issues?
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most 1040 data remains on a downturn from 2016, with only refund amounts edging barely into positive territory.
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tax season half over but no one is celebrating
pros are gaining ground in e-filings.
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we’re halfway through tax season! woohoo, blow the party horns!
more tax season data: tax pros filing only 51% of e-returns | tax refunds up slightly | tax filings data looking less squirrely | tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
where’s your horn? you don’t seem to be celebrating. what up, dog?
filing statistics are down, and some of you aren’t shy about suggesting why.
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tax pro e-filing down 10%
refunds are the only figure tracking higher this year.
by beth bellor
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the e-filing margin between tax professionals and self-preparers is narrowing. still, the pace of e-filing by tax professionals is running 10% behind the same time last year.
more tax season data: tax refunds up slightly | tax filings data looking less squirrely | tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
as of march 3, the irs had received 61.1 million individual income tax returns, down 8.5 percent from the same period last year, although 2017 has had four fewer processing days so we’re comparing oranges to tangerines.
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tax refunds up slightly
everything else is down.
now that tax refunds are flowing out steadily, they are ever so slightly higher than last year.
more on taxes: tax filings data looking less squirrely | tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
that’s the only filing statistic on the positive side, though. four fewer reporting days than at the same time last year has most markers down around 10 percent.
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tax filings data looking less squirrely
some refunds remain unreported, but filings are catching up.
by beth bellor
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year-to-year differences in tax filing data are starting to level off.
more: tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
four fewer reporting days in 2017 skewed results at first, but statistics for the week ending feb. 10 show a difference in returns filed of around 17 percent, about half the 33 percent decline that led off the season.
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tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
tax pros make up 38% of e-filings.
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it’s a shiny new tax season, and that means more shiny new filing data from the irs.
more tax season 2017: free instant download: sample fee schedule for 1040s | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar | survey results: busy season 2017 gets off to strong start | 2017 fee survey: price for non-itemized 1040s advances 6% to $176 | the annual tax meeting is dead. clients killed it. | reader sound-off: mandatory saturdays stir controversy
of course, since it comes from the irs, it also has its own set of footnotes and qualifiers. for one, even though we’re comparing the week ending jan. 27, 2017, with the week ending jan. 29, 2016, the 2016 figure included four more days of tax return processing – although when comparing identical numbers of days, 2017 marks an increase. for another, the new law requiring a hold on refunds involving the earned income tax credit and additional child tax credit until feb. 15 is skewing early season refund numbers and dollar amounts, because many taxpayers claiming these credits are early filers. read more →
tax filing season 2016 ends on positive notes
pros handled 58 percent of e-filings.
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after weeks of falling statistics, the 2016 filing season closed on positives in every category but one – the profession’s market share slipped another percentage point this year.
more on tax season: most tax season filing stats down | tax pros preparing 58 percent of e-filings | tax filing trends remain steady | refunds top $200 billion mark | tax filings, processing remain slower | pros lose ground in e-filing | tax questions up, filings down
there were 136.53 million individual income tax returns filed by april 22, with the april 18 deadline falling within that week. the total returns received were up 1.7 percent from 2015. total returns processed numbered 129.46 million, up 0.9 percent. that puts the processing rate to date at 94.8 percent.
e-filing receipts totaled 122.55 million, up 2.6 percent. tax professionals prepared 70.86 million, up 0.5 percent, and 51.68 million were self-prepared, up 5.7 percent.
tax pros preparing 58 percent of e-filings
more than 97 percent of individual filed returns have been processed.
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the tax season is groaning to a close and that is reflected in the slowing of most 2016 filing season statistics.
more on individual filings: tax filing trends remain steady | refunds top $200 billion mark | tax filings, processing remain slower | pros lose ground in e-filing | tax questions up, filings down
the irs had received 107.45 million individual income tax returns as of april 8, down 3 percent from the same period last year. it had processed 104.53 million returns, down 3.2 percent.
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tax filing trends remain steady
pros handling about 57 percent of filings.
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same song, yet another verse in individual tax filings.
related: refunds top $200 billion mark | tax filings, processing remain slower | pros lose ground in e-filing | tax questions up, filings down
refunds are up a hair, self-preparers rise while tax pros lose ground, and people still like visiting the irs website better than ever.
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refunds top $200 billion mark
tax pros hold edge while direct deposit rules.
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refunds to individual income tax filers topped the $200 billion mark as the 2016 filing season entered its final month.
the internal revenue service had received 89.41 million individual returns by march 25, down 0.9 percent from the same time in 2015. it had processed 86.91 million of those returns, down 1.6 percent. while slowing, that’s still a 97.2 percent processing rate.
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tax filings, processing remain slower
tax pros hold the edge in e-filings, but still on the decline.
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the irs continues to grind through individual income tax returns nearly as quickly as it receives them, with about 97.2 percent completion.
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for the week ending march 18, 81.96 million returns had been received, down 0.4 percent from the same period last year. of those, 79.63 million had been processed, down 1 percent.
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pros lose ground in e-filing
refunds are up a smidgen, while website visits soar.
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are more e-filers switching to self-preparation, and if so, why?
the “why” unfortunately isn’t told in the data, but the most recent tax filing statistics available show that e-filings by professionals are down 3.6 percent from the same week in 2015, while self-preparation is up 3.8 percent.
related: tax questions up, filings down
e-filing receipts as a whole were flat at 55 million, with 27.7 million coming from tax professionals and 27.37 self-prepared. sure the pros’ number is larger, but we like to look at trends here, and this one causes concern. not to mention that larger number is by a hair’s width of a margin, as pros are handling 50.3 percent of e-filings.
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