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

• The IRS collected close to $3.5 trillion in gross taxes in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020  (Tables  1XLSX and 5XLSX) and issued almost 122 million refunds (Table 7XLSX), amounting to more than $736.2 billion (Tables 1XLSX and 8XLSX).
• The IRS processed more than 240.2 million Federal tax returns and supplemental documents (Tables 2XLSX and 3XLSX) in FY 2020.
• Nearly 195.2 million returns and other forms were filed electronically. These represented 81.3 percent of all filings, an increase of 5.7 percent over the share of electronic filing in FY 2019. Almost 94.3 percent of individual tax returns were filed electronically (Table 4XLSX).

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 2019 and 2020XLSX
Table 2: Number of Returns and Other Forms Filed, by Type, Fiscal Years 2019 and 2020XLSX
Table 3: Number of Returns and Other Forms Filed, by Type and State, Fiscal Year 2020XLSX
Table 4: Number of Returns and Other Forms Filed Electronically, by Type and State, Fiscal Year 2020XLSX
Table 5: Gross Collections, by Type of Tax and State, Fiscal Year 2020XLSX
Table 6: Gross Collections, by Type of Tax, Fiscal Years 1960–2020XLSX
Table 7: Number of Refunds Issued, by Type of Refund and State, Fiscal Year 2020XLSX
Table 8: Amount of Refunds Issued, Including Interest, by Type of Refund and State, Fiscal Year 2020XLSX

Data for all years

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

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