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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Data Book is published annually by the Internal Revenue Service and contains statistical tables and organizational information on a fiscal year basis. The report provides data on collecting the revenue, issuing refunds, enforcing the law, assisting the taxpayer, and the budget and workforce.

The IRS Data Book also presents lists of principal officers and the IRS organization chart, which are located at the back of this report.

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• Returns filed, taxes collected, and refunds issued
• Service to taxpayers
• Compliance presence
• Collection activities, penalties, and appeals
• Chief Counsel
• IRS budget and workforce
• Discontinued tables
• IRS Data Book glossary of terms
• Data by state

Returns filed, taxes collected and refunds issued

• Table 1-1: Collections and refunds, by type of tax
• Table 1-2: Number of returns and other forms filed, by type
• Table 1-3: Number of returns and other forms filed, by type and state
• Table 1-4: Number of returns and other forms filed electronically, by type and state
• Table 1-5: Gross collections, by type of tax and state
• Table 1-6: Gross collections, by type of tax
• Table 1-7: Number of refunds issued, by type of refund and state
• Table 1-8: Amount of refunds issued, including interest, by type of refund and state

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Service to taxpayers

• Table 2-1: Selected taxpayer assistance and education programs, by type of assistance or program
• Table 2-2: Selected online taxpayer assistance, by type of assistance
• Table 2-3: Taxpayer Advocate Service: Post-filing taxpayer assistance program, by type of primary issue and relief
• Table 2-4: Closures of applications for tax-exempt status, by organization type and Internal Revenue Code Section
• Table 2-5: Receipts of forms 8976, notices of intent to operate under Section 501(c)(4)
• Table 2-6: Tax-exempt organizations, nonexempt charitable trusts, and nonexempt split-interest trusts
• Table 2-7: Determination letters issued on employee retirement plans, by type and disposition of plan
• Table 2-8: Technical activities and voluntary compliance closures

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Compliance presence

• Table 3-1: Examination coverage and recommended additional tax after examination, by type and size of return, tax years 2010–2018
• Table 3-2: Examination Coverage: Recommended additional tax, and returns with unagreed additional tax, after examination, by type and size of return
• Table 3-3: Examination Coverage: Returns examined involving protection of revenue base, by type and size of return
• Table 3-4: Examination Coverage: Returns examined resulting in refunds, by type and size of returns
• Table 3-5: Returns of tax-exempt organizations, employee retirement plans, government entities, and tax-exempt bonds examined, by type of return
• Table 3-6: Tax certainty: Advance pricing agreement program, by type of agreement
• Table 3-7: Tax certainty: Compliance assurance process program, by program phase
• Table 3-8: Information reporting program
• Table 3-9: Math errors on individual income tax returns, by type of error
• Table 3-10: Criminal Investigation program, by status or disposition

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Collections activities, penalties, and appeals

• Table 4-1: Delinquent collection activities
• Table 4-2: Civil penalties assessed and abated, by type of tax and type of penalty
• Table 4-3: Appeals workload, by type of case
• Table 4-4: Appeals: alternative dispute resolution, mediation programs by initiative type 

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Chief Counsel

• Table 5-1: Chief Counsel workload: All cases, by office and type of case
• Table 5-2: Chief Counsel workload: Tax litigation cases, by type of case

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IRS budget and workforce

• Table 6-1: Costs incurred by budget activity
• Table 6-2: Collections, costs, personnel, and U.S. population
• Table 6-3: Personnel summary, by employment status, budget activity, and selected personnel type
• Table 6-4: Internal Revenue Service and Chief Counsel labor force, compared to national totals for federal and civilian labor forces, by sex, race/ethnicity, disability, and veteran status

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Affordable Care Act of 2010

• Affordable Care Act of 2010: Number of returns, tax collections, tax credits, grants, and fees for selected non-exchange provisions

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First-Time Homebuyer Credit

• First-Time Homebuyer Credit, by state

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Table 9b: Examination coverage

• Table 9b: Examination coverage: Individual income tax returns examined, by size of adjusted gross income and fiscal year

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Table 17b: Examination coverage

• Table 17b: Examination coverage: Recommended and average recommended additional tax after examination, by type and size of return

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