Tax Trivia

A news release at IRS.gov provides some interesting stats on e-filing. Of the tax returns filed in 2010 almost 70% were filed electronically.

They say that almost 35 million were e-filed from a home computer. Turbo Tax and H&R Block must be doing pretty good. And their lobbyist are probably already greasing the chute to dump any alternative should there be a serious effort by lawmakers to replace the income tax.

That 35 million is about a third of the e-filed returns and about a quarter of the total returns filed.

Here are some raw numbers for 2010:

Total returns filed: 141,536,000
Total returns e-filed: 98,740,000
Total returns e-filed from home computers: 34,847,000.

All this and more at IRS.gov. Specifically, see: Nearly 70 Percent of Taxpayers Used IRS e-file in 2010.

Comments

[Les]

In case you and your readers didn't know... AARP and the IRS' VITA programs offer free tax preparation for seniors February through April. The Midand and Odessa AARP programs set up at senior citizens centers.

And Geo... if you have some free time maybe you'd like to volunteer?

[Geo]

Thanks for the info, Les. Seems like I heard that there's a new license requirement for tax preparers. But I'm sure the people helping with that are qualified.

As for me doing it, I'm helpless without my off the shelf tax program.