Tax Questions Up, Filings Down

Chart of IRS filing season statistics for week ending Feb. 19, 2016

Tax pros doing less than half of e-filings.

By CPA Trendlines

Visits to the IRS website are up 13 percent, but three weeks into the tax season, almost everything else was down.

IRS.gov saw 20 million more visitors than last year at this time, 175,958,748 as of Feb. 19, compared to 155,780,478 the same week in 2015.

Also up this year are e-filing receipts from self-preparers, with nearly 24.2 million received, up 3.1 percent from last year’s 23.4 million.