IRS Reports Everything Went Up Except Refunds

Tax professionals kept 59 percent of the e-filing segment.

When all the clicking and cursing was done, the IRS had received more than 132.2 million individual tax returns this year, up 0.8 percent from 2014. As of April 17, it had processed 126.1 million of them, up 0.4 percent from last year and a rate of 95.4 percent for the season’s receipts.

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