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.