Tax Pros E-File 63 Million Returns through April 13

Chart of IRS filing dataAverage refunds remain positive even as totals are in the red.

By Beth Bellor
CPA Trendlines

With less than a week to go, tax processing slowed slightly.

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The IRS had received 118.6 million individual income tax returns as of April 13, the latest data available. That’s up 0.1 percent from the same week in 2017. It had processed 114.8 million of those, down 0.2 percent.