The Internal Revenue Service has received 45,271,000 returns for the tax season through February 26, a 30.5-percent increase from 34,693,000 reported the prior week. The numbers still lag behind 2020 as the recent statistics were for 15 filing days, as opposed to 33 days for the comparable period in 2020.The returns were overwhelmingly from efiles which totaled 43,936,000 for the reported season to date, an increase of 30.7 percent from 33,615,000 for the week-earlier statistics.
The pace at which tax professionals efiles was substantially ahead of the self-prepared returns. There were 18,344,000 efiled returns from paid professionals, an increase of 43.2 percent over the prior report. There were 25,592,000 self-prepared efiles, a 23 percent rise from 20,802,000 a week earlier.
