Tax pros slightly behind last year’s pace, but still hold the edge in sheer numbers.
By Beth Bellor
CPA Trendlines
By many measures, this tax season is slightly ahead of 2017’s pace.
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The IRS had received 85.7 million individual income tax returns by the week ending March 23, the latest data available. That’s up 0.5 percent from the same period last year.