Tax Return Filings Still Lag, But Pros Hold 57% of Market

Chart of IRS filing data for the week ended Feb. 3, 2017
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Four days fewer in 2017 still skewing statistics.

The IRS continues to churn back tax returns nearly as quickly as it receives them, while the percentage that were self-prepared is tracking higher than the same point last year.

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With 20.18 million returns received as of Feb. 3, the latest data available, the agency had processed 19.97 million or 98.9 percent of them.