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individual tax filings still lag behind 2016

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chart of irs data for week ending march 17, 2017
data for week ending march 17, 2017

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

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office worker spraying silly string on colleaguepros are gaining ground in e-filings.

by beth bellor
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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
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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%

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chart of irs filing data
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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
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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

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chart of irs filing data
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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
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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

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chart of irs filing data for week ending feb. 10, 2017
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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
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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

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chart of tax filing data for week ending jan. 27
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tax pros make up 38% of e-filings.

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by beth bellor
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it’s a shiny new tax season, and that means more shiny new filing data from the irs.

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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

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chart of irs statistics for week ending april 22, 2016.
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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.

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tax pros preparing 58 percent of e-filings

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chart of irs data for week ending april 8.
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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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