In shorter season, professional e-filings are down only 5.6%.
By Beth Bellor
Year-to-year tax filing statistics stabilized ever so slightly this week, as average refunds slipped out of the red and IRS visits backed off a bit in pace.
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The Internal Revenue Service had received 93.2 million individual income tax returns as of April 2, down 4.3 percent from the same period in 2020. In releasing the latest available data, the agency noted that the filing season began 18 days later this year, skewing comparisons.
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