

 
IR-2014-20, Feb. 27, 2014
WASHINGTON — The IRS announced today that, three weeks into the filing season, it has received about one-third of the individual income tax returns that it expects to receive during 2014. The IRS has processed almost 98 percent of the 49.6 million returns received so far. Each week this filing season, the IRS has processed a greater percentage of the returns received than during comparable weeks last year.
More taxpayers are filing their returns electronically this year. Overall, 46.6 million returns have been e-filed this year, up one percent from the same time last year. As in prior years, the greatest increase is among individuals filing from their home computers. Almost 22 million returns have been e-filed from home computers this year, an increase of almost 7 percent compared to the same time last year.
The IRS has issued more than 40 million tax refunds this year, an increase of more than six percent compared to the same time last year. Almost 90 percent of these refunds were directly deposited into taxpayers’ accounts.
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2014 FILING SEASON STATISTICS


Cumulative statistics comparing 2/22/13 and 2/21/14


Individual Income Tax Returns:


2013


2014


% Change


Total Receipts


49,448,000


49,558,000


0.2


Total Processed


42,837,000


48,335,000


12.8


 


 


 


 


E-filing Receipts:


 


 


 


TOTAL           


46,149,000


46,641,000


1.1


Tax Professionals


25,618,000


24,687,000


-3.6


Self-prepared


20,531,000


21,954,000


6.9


 


 


 


 


Web Usage:


 


 


 


Visits to IRS.gov


155,167,572


145,881,766


-6.0


 


 


 


 


Total Refunds:


 


 


 


Number


38,042,000


40,389,000


6.2


Amount


$113.738


Billion


$125.831


Billion


10.6


Average refund


$2,990


$3,116


4.2


 


 


 


 


Direct Deposit Refunds:


 


 


 


Number


34,618,000


35,694,000


3.1


Amount


$107.228


Billion


$112.628


Billion


5.0


Average refund


$3,097


$3,155


1.9

 


