Half of E-Filings Go Through Tax Pros

IRS filing data for week ending March 2, 2018Direct deposits down from their usual range.

By Beth Bellor
CPA Trendlines

With a full month of tax filings in the books, there aren’t any surprises.

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By the end of week 5 on March 2, the IRS had received 61.2 million individual income tax returns, up 0.1 percent from the same period last year. It had processed 59 million, down 0.1 percent.