IR-2014-20: IRS Continues Smooth Start to Filing Season

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Issue Number:    IR-2014-20

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IRS Continues Smooth Start to Filing Season

WASHINGTON — The IRS announced today that, three weeks into the filing season, it has received about one-third of the individual income tax returns that it expects to receive during 2014. The IRS has processed almost 98 percent of the 49.6 million returns received so far. Each week this filing season, the IRS has processed a greater percentage of the returns received than during comparable weeks last year.

More taxpayers are filing their returns electronically this year. Overall, 46.6 million returns have been e-filed this year, up one percent from the same time last year. As in prior years, the greatest increase is among individuals filing from their home computers. Almost 22 million returns have been e-filed from home computers this year, an increase of almost 7 percent compared to the same time last year.

The IRS has issued more than 40 million tax refunds this year, an increase of more than six percent compared to the same time last year. Almost 90 percent of these refunds were directly deposited into taxpayers’ accounts.

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2014 FILING SEASON STATISTICS

Cumulative statistics comparing 2/22/13 and 2/21/14

Individual Income Tax Returns:

2013

2014

% Change

Total Receipts

49,448,000

49,558,000

2.7

Total Processed

42,837,000

48,335,000

12.8

 

 

 

 

E-filing Receipts:

 

 

 

TOTAL          

46,149,000

46,641,000

1.1

Tax Professionals

25,618,000

24,687,000

-3.6

Self-prepared

20,531,000

21,954,000

6.9

 

 

 

 

Web Usage:

 

 

 

Visits to IRS.gov

155,167,572

145,881,766

-6.0

 

 

 

 

Total Refunds:

 

 

 

Number

38,042,000

40,389,000

6.2

Amount

$113.738

Billion

$125.831

Billion

10.6

Average refund

$2,990

$3,116

4.2

 

 

 

 

Direct Deposit Refunds:

 

 

 

Number

34,618,000

35,694,000

3.1

Amount

$107.228

Billion

$112.628

Billion

5.0

Average refund

$3,097

$3,155

1.9

 

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