IRS Says More Returns Are Being Filed Without a Tax Preparer.

Hardworking young adult businessman, checking the company budget in the files.
As of April 18, 2014, almost 46 million returns were e-filed from home computers (not using a tax professional – but self prepared), which is more than the total from home computers for all of 2013. Based on IRS‘ statistics, more taxpayers are preparing their own returns.

  1. The IRS received more than 131 million returns, of which 88 % were e-filed. Thus, the home-filed returns are approximately 35% of the total returns filed.
  2. The IRS projects about five million taxpayers will amend their returns, which is about 3.8% of all returns filed.
E-filing Receipts:

2013

2014

% Change
TOTAL

112,665,000

115,969,000

2.9
Tax Professionals

69,474,000

69,992,000

0.7
Self-prepared

43,191,000

45,977,000

6.5

If you have a question about your tax return, or are facing an IRS or California state tax audit, contact our team of San Diego tax attorneys.