Tax Professionals Accelerate Filing Pace as Busy Season Heads for the Home Stretch

Chart of IRS tax filing data through March 24, 2017

Still: Everything down but refunds.

By Beth Bellor
CPA Trendlines

With busy season entering the last lap, tax professionals are only now starting to catch up with last year’s pace.

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The latest count from the IRS shows 43.4 million returns e-filed by professionals, down about 6 percent from the same year-ago period. But that’s an improvement from the previous report, which showed tax professionals trailing the year-ago pace by 7 percent.