Bookkeeping and tax practice · 14 min
Tax season
From February to April, a tax practice does most of its year's work and earns most of its year's money. Then the phone goes quiet, and the bills don't. A few tickets on surviving the crunch, and the months after it.
Ticket 01 · The guess
When do the returns come in?
Words to know
Sources and every number (3)
Sources
- 2025 Filing season statistics: individual income tax returns, week ending Feb. 14, 2025 · Internal Revenue Service, 2025
- 2025 Filing season statistics: individual income tax returns, week ending March 14, 2025 · Internal Revenue Service, 2025
- 2025 Filing season statistics: individual income tax returns, week ending April 18, 2025 · Internal Revenue Service, 2025
Every number
- 13.4 million returns
irs.gov ·2025 · Individual income tax returns e-filed by tax professionals and received by the IRS, from the start of the 2025 season to the week ending in mid-February 2025. - 19 million returns
irs.gov ·2025 · Individual income tax returns people prepared and e-filed themselves, to the week ending in mid-February 2025. - 34.5 million returns
irs.gov ·2025 · Individual income tax returns e-filed by tax professionals and received by the IRS, to the week ending in mid-March 2025. - 72.5 million returns
irs.gov ·2025 · Individual income tax returns e-filed by tax professionals and received by the IRS, to the end of the April 2025 deadline week. - 52.5%
irs.gov ·2025 · Worked out from the IRS's weekly counts: tax professionals' e-filed returns received in the five weeks after mid-March 2025, up to the end of the April deadline week, as a share of all they had received by then.