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The returns you'll be filing more (and less) of in 2023

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The Internal Revenue Service received more than 260 million paper and electronic returns in fiscal year 2022, and it expects to receive even more this year.

Of the 21 different types of return, the majority will see an increase in volume between FY 2022 and FY 2023. Five types of return are projected to increase in volume by more than 45% in FY 2023 over the previous year's actual total.

Scroll through to see which types of tax return will see the biggest increase in filing volume from FY 2022 to FY 2023.  

Source: IRS Publication 6292, Spring 2023

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