Returns filed, taxes collected and refunds issued

This section of the 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 $2.9 trillion before refunds (Tables 1-1 XLSX and 1-6 XLSX  ).

• The IRS also collected $486.4billion in income taxes, before refunds, from businesses in FY 2025 (Tables 1-1 XLSX and 1-6 XLSX).

• More than 224.2 million returns and other forms were filed electronically. These represented 82.6% of all filings. For individual tax returns, 93.7% were filed electronically (Table 1-4  XLSX ).

• The IRS issued 116.9 million refunds to individuals in FY 2025, amounting to $516.4 billion (Tables 1-7 XLSX and 1-8 XLSX  XLSX ).

• In FY 2025, 14.0 million tax refunds included a refundable child tax credit and 22.2 million included a refundable earned income tax credit (Table 1-7 XLSX  ).  

Index of Data Book tables

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

Table 1-1: Collections and refunds, by type of tax, fiscal years 2024 and 2025 XLSX
Table 1-2: Number of returns and other forms filed, by type, fiscal years 2024 and 2025 XLSX
Table 1-3: Number of returns and other forms filed, by type and state, fiscal year 2025 XLSX
Table 1-4: Number of returns and other forms filed electronically, by type and state, fiscal year 2025 XLSX
Table 1-5: Gross collections, by type of tax and state, fiscal year 2025 XLSX
Table 1-6: Gross collections, by type of tax, fiscal years 1960–2025 XLSX
Table 1-7: Number of refunds issued, by type of refund and state, fiscal year 2025 XLSX
Table 1-8: Amount of refunds issued, including interest, by type of refund and state, fiscal year 2025 XLSX

Data for all years

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

Other Data Book sections

• Returns filed, taxes collected and refunds issued
• Service to taxpayers
• Compliance presence
• Collections, activities, penalties and appeals
• Chief Counsel
• IRS budget & workforce

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