More than DIY’ers, but still behind last year’s pace.
By Beth Bellor
Many tax filing statistics remain on the negative side, but tax prep professionals hit a bright spot as they began outnumbering the DIYers.
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As of March 15, the latest data available, the IRS had received 75.9 million individual income tax returns, down 2.5 percent from the same time last year. The agency had processed 73.5 million returns, down 2.4 percent.
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