More than 27 million taxpayers have filed their tax returns from their home computers so far this tax season, an increase of almost 6 percent compared to last year.
The total number of individual income tax returns e-filed so far this year is 62.2 million. E-file includes both returns filed from home computers and returns e-filed by professional tax return preparers.
These 27 million taxpayers who filed their own taxes from home used a variety of software products to prepare and electronically file their own tax returns. However, the IRS is reminding people that they can prepare and e-file their federal tax returns online for free through Free File at IRS.gov, which provides links to brand-name software from 14 tax prep vendors for taxpayers whose income was $58,000 or less, or online fillable forms from the IRS for taxpayers who earned more last year.
The IRS provided a comparison of tax season filing statistics table as of March 7, 2014:
2014 FILING SEASON STATISTICS | |||||
Cumulative statistics comparing 3/08/13 and 3/07/14 | |||||
Individual Income Tax Returns: | 2013 | 2014 | % Change | ||
Total Receipts | 67,143,000 | 67,183,000 | 0.1 | ||
Total Processed | 60,944,000 | 65,662,000 | 7.7 | ||
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E-filing Receipts: |
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TOTAL | 61,488,000 | 62,213,000 | 1.2 | ||
Tax Professionals | 35,585,000 | 34,816,000 | -2.2 | ||
Self-prepared | 25,903,000 | 27,397,000 | 5.8 | ||
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Web Usage: |
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Visits to IRS.gov | 197,651,780 | 181,196,235 | -8.3 | ||
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Total Refunds: |
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Number | 53,447,000 | 55,434,000 | 3.7 | ||
Amount | $154.696 | Billion | $164.586 | Billion | 6.4 |
Average refund | $2,894 | $2,969 | 2.6 | ||
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Direct Deposit Refunds: |
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Number | 47,177,000 | 47,976,000 | 1.7 | ||
Amount | $142.861 | Billion | $146.305 | Billion | 2.4 |
Average refund | $3,028 | $3,050 | 0.7 | ||
