tax pros hold slimmest of margins in e-filings
but those filings remain down 17 percent.
by beth bellor
tax season
pro tax prep stalls to a crawl amid covid-extended season
pros hold the margin, but barely.
by beth bellor
new tax filing statistics show only a couple of upticks over last year: diy e-filings and irs website traffic, suggesting tax practitioners have hit the big “pause” button on tax season 2020.
more: tax pro e-filings down 20 percent | irs web traffic doubles over year-ago | covid drowns irs in new filings | 2020 tax season comes to a screeching halt | the tax season 2020 dumpster fire | tax pros fall behind 6.2% in returns filed | tax pros trail by 908,000 returns | tax pro irs filings lag by 532,000
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then again, if you’re in i.t. at the irs, that might not be such happy news.
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tax pro e-filings down 20 percent
irs.gov visits top 1 billion.
by beth bellor
irs web traffic doubles over year-ago
as filers seek stimulus checks.
busy season barometer
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by beth bellor
want a bright spot in the irs’ weekly updates on tax filings? it’s website traffic, more than double what it was a year ago.
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everything else? a sea of red.
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covid drowns irs in new filings
* total includes returns filed to obtain economic impact payments by those who would not usually file income tax returns.
why not? submissions are way down.
busy season barometer
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by beth bellor
coronavirus hit irs data in a couple of ways this week.
people who don’t ordinarily file income tax returns, but did so to obtain economic impact payments, boosted filings higher than they might have been for the week ending april 17, the latest data. in addition, visits to irs.gov shot up 77 percent over 2019 – the get my payment link surely was part of that picture.
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the internal revenue service reported receiving 116 million individual income tax returns, down 15.5 percent. it had processed 106.6 million returns, up 18.5 percent.
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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.
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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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tax pro e-filings lag by 512,000 returns
refunds up on average, down in total.
by beth bellor
busy season barometer:
how does this year’s busy season compare to last year’s?
better, worse, or about the same?
data points down as tax season opens
diys, refunds are up.
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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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tax filings: everything up but refunds
pros handled 57% of e-filings.
by beth bellor
e-filing pace quickens toward finish
average refund remains down.
by beth bellor
refund amounts remain lower than 2018
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.
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tax pro e-filing off 2.7% from last year’s pace
average refunds down 1%.
by beth bellor
tax professionals file 38 million returns
more than diy’ers, but still behind last year’s pace.
by beth bellor