

IR-2007-185, Nov. 7, 2007
 
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service this year received nearly 80 million tax returns through e-file, breaking the record set last year.
The 2007 level is up about 9 percent from the 73 million returns filed for the same period last year. Of the 139.3 million returns filed in 2007, 79.98 million or about 57.4 percent were filed electronically.
  “It was another record-breaking year for e-file,” said IRS Acting Commissioner Linda E. Stiff. “Paper returns continue to drop year after year. E-file is the safe, accurate way for more and more taxpayers to quickly complete their taxes and get a refund faster.”
Since 2001, the number of e-filed returns has almost doubled and over the past decade the number of e-filers has increased four-fold.
 

  Year 


Returns


  Total E-file 


 Percent E-file


1997


 121.5 million


19.2 million


15.8%


1998


123.8 million


24.6 million


19.9%


1999


125.9 million


29.3 million


23.3%


2000


128.4 million


35.4 million


27.6%


2001


131.0 million


40.2 million


30.7%


2002


131.7 million


46.9 million


35.6%


2003


131.6 million


52.9 million


40.2%


2004


132.2 million


61.5 million


46.5%


2005


134.0 million


68.5 million


51.1%


2006


136.1 million


73.3 million


53.8%

More than 22.6 million returns have been e-filed by taxpayers doing their own returns, up from 20.3 million from the same period last year. More than 57.4 million returns were e-filed by tax professionals, up from nearly 52.9 million last year.
Direct Deposit, IRS.gov also Set Records
Meanwhile, more people this year chose to have their tax refunds directly deposited than ever before. For the year to date, the IRS has directly deposited 61.4 million refunds, up 8 percent from last year.
The IRS Web site — IRS.gov — also experienced a record year. The IRS recorded 196.2 million visits to IRS.gov this year, a more than 10 percent increase from the 177.5 million visits for the same period last year.
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