Filing Your Taxes Online

Filing Your Taxes Online How are Americans filing taxes? Getting a refund? TurboTax Choose Easy. 95 $2,753 33% paper 67% 22% 78% million filled electronically average IRS tax refund filed paper no refund filed electronically refund received 34% 66 34% 66° ofe-files sef paper check The Internal Revenue Service prepared As of October 16, 2009 direct deposit of e-files prepared by tax professionals announced a record 95 million over 67 percent of tax retums out of 141 million were individuals chose to e-file filed electronically for the 2008 tax year, led by a big increase in people using home computers. their tax returns, compared to 59 percent for the same time last year. Top E-Filing States" California - 11,184,524 Pennsylvania - 3,712,113 Texas - 6,802,759 Ohio - 3,667,183 New York - 6,030,614 Michigan - 3,466,279 Florida - 5,678,740 Georgia - 3,005,609 Illinois - 3,785,397 North Carolina - 2,830,212 *Tax year 2008 federale-filing retum by state E-filing from consumer D.I.Y. software is growing the fastest 40,000,000 30,000,000 20,000,000 10,000,000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Research by Mulbrandon Research, Design & Insights | Illustration by Jake Mize (www.jakemize.com) Source material: Internal Revenue Service (statements made are based on tax year 2008 unless otherwise indicated). Years displayed are tax years.