

IR-2006-47, March 22, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that taxpayers are continuing to e-file from home computers at a record pace, up almost 17 percent from the same period last year.
“People using tax preparation software is driving the increase in e-filing,” said IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson. “Taxpayers can rely on e-file as a safe, accurate way to quickly finish their taxes and get a refund.”
So far this tax filing season, 70 percent of all returns have been e-filed, compared to 68 percent for the same period last year. As of last Friday, 28 percent of e-filed returns were filed by people using their home computers, up from 25 percent of e-filed returns for the same period last year.
More than 13 million returns have been filed this tax season by people e-filing from the comfort of their own homes, up from just over 11 million for the same period last year.
Also, more people are choosing to have their tax refunds directly deposited than ever before. So far this year, the IRS has directly deposited almost 40 million refunds, or 70 percent of all refunds issued this tax filing season, up from 67 percent of the total for the same period last year.
People are also visiting the IRS Web site – IRS.gov – in record numbers. The IRS has recorded almost 84 million unique visits to IRS.gov this year, up from 80 million for the same period last year, an increase of 6.5 percent.
2006 Filing Season Statistics
Cumulative through the weeks ending 3/18/05 and 3/17/06
Individual Income Tax Returns
 
 

2005


2006


Percent Change


Total Receipts


67,377,000


67,077,000


-0.4


Total Processed


63,455,000


62,726,000


-1.1


 


 


 


 


E-filing Receipts


 


 


 


TOTAL


45,936,000


46,874,000


2.0


Tax Professionals


32,064,000


33,664,000


  5.0


Self-prepared


11,329,000


13,210,000


16.6


Telefile


2,543,000


NA


NA


 


 


 


 


Web Usage


 


 


 


Unique Visits to IRS.gov


78,512,013


83,586,558


6.5


 


 


 


 


Total Refunds


 


 


 


Number


56,279,000


56,320,000


  0.1


Amount


$128,820 billion


133.993 billion


4.0


Average


$2,289


$2,379


4.0


 


 


 


 


Direct Deposit Refunds


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Number


37,949,000


39,765,000


4.8


Amount


$99.208 billion


107.529 billion


8.4


Average


$2,614


$2,704


3.4


 


 


 


 

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