Returns Filed, Taxes Collected & Refunds Issued

Section 1 of the IRS Data Book provides a broad overview of the main functions performed by the IRS: processing Federal tax returns and collecting revenue. It also provides additional details on returns filed, returns filed electronically, gross collections, and tax refunds by State and type of tax.

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Highlights of the data

• Individual income tax withheld and tax payments, combined, totaled almost $2.6 trillion before re­funds (Tables 1XLSX and 6XLSX).
• The IRS also collected nearly $457.0 billion in income taxes, before re­funds, from businesses in FY 2023 Tables 1XLSX and 6XLSX).
• More than 213.3 million returns and other forms were filed electronically. These represented 78.6 percent of all filings. For individual tax returns, 90.7 percent were filed electronically (Table 4XLSX).
• The IRS issued 120.9 million refunds to individuals in FY 2023, amounting to more than $461.2 billion (Tables 7XLSX and 8XLSX).
• In FY 2023, more than 15.7 million tax refunds included a refundable child tax credit and nearly 22.4 million included a refundable earned income tax credit (Table 7XLSX).

Index of Data Book Tables

Returns filed, taxes collected, and refunds issued: Tables 1–8

Table 1: Collections and Refunds, by Type of Tax, Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023XLSX
Table 2: Number of Returns and Other Forms Filed, by Type, Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023XLSX
Table 3: Number of Returns and Other Forms Filed, by Type and State, Fiscal Year 2023XLSX
Table 4: Number of Returns and Other Forms Filed Electronically, by Type and State, Fiscal Year 2023XLSX
Table 5: Gross Collections, by Type of Tax and State, Fiscal Year 2023XLSX
Table 6: Gross Collections, by Type of Tax, Fiscal Years 1960–2023XLSX
Table 7: Number of Refunds Issued, by Type of Refund and State, Fiscal Year 2023XLSX
Table 8: Amount of Refunds Issued, Including Interest, by Type of Refund and State, Fiscal Year 2023XLSX

Data for all years

• Table 1
• Table 2
• Table 3
• Table 4
• Table 5
• Table 6
• Table 7
• Table 8

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