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Down by 400,000 Returns – The End of Tax Prep?

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Red Alert: Tax professional e-filings drop by 0.5% year-to-year, first year-to-year decline ever.

Final IRS stats for Busy Season 2020 shows professionals filed 0.5% fewer returns than last year and lost market share to DIY’ers.

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By Beth Bellor
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In what may be an alarming turning point for the profession, tax practitioners finished an already chaotic and bruising Tax Season 2020 after preparing a total of 73.8 million e-filed returns – a decline of 400,00, or 0.5 percent, from Tax Season 2019 – the first such reversal on record. Ever.

Jon Baron

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“If you are in public accounting and relying on personal return revenue, the results this year are troubling as it is the first time that professionally prepared returns actually fell from the prior year,” says Jon Baron, the longtime CEO of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting, and now a venture capitalist with more than a couple startups in stealth mode.

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The Mystery of 10 Million Missing Tax Returns

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data chartWhile tax professionals’ efiling pace remains stalled, DIYers grow by 4 million.

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By Beth Bellor

With less than a month to go before 2020’s extended tax deadline, the grind continues.

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And the question is: Where are 10 million tax returns that should have been filed by now by professionals?

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