refund amounts remain lower than 2018

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cumulative through week ended march 29

tax pros handling 54.3% of e-filings, down 2 points from year ago.

by beth bellor
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the pace of 2019 remains behind that of 2018 on most counts as the tax season stumbles to a close.

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the irs had received 92.9 million individual income tax returns as of the week ending march 29, the last data available, down 1.4 percent from the same period last year. it had processed 90.3 million returns, down 2 percent.
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the irs free-file flop

percentage of free file users by income demographics

fix it, or lose it.

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can you believe that 70 percent of all u.s. taxpayers could be using free file, yet only 2.5 percent actually are? did we mention “free?”

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the reasons are mostly a mystery, but we found five major problems and seven ways to improve the program. if all else fails, even it’s backers agree: give up.

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refunds still up, but only by 0.7%

chart of filing datae-filings are nearly evenly split between the pros and the amateurs.

by beth bellor

the gloomy season continues. the irs is slower than ever before, the tax cuts and jobs act didn’t simplify our lives, and after all the work we put in, we face clients who are upset about their refunds. everyone got an eye on their countdowns?

the internal revenue service had received 67.7 million individual income tax returns as of march 8, the latest data available, down 2.5 percent from the same period in 2018. it had processed 65.3 million returns, down 2.8 percent. read more →