The 2024 tax season has been chugging along for over eight weeks now, and now there’s just about two weeks left until everything wraps up, with the season having kicked off on Jan. 29 and ending April 15. The amount of tax refund money the IRS has sent out is continuing to pick up, even though the total number of refunds sent so far in 2024 is continuing to lag slightly behind the numbers for the same period in 2023.
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The IRS had also received 80.4 million returns by March 22, down by just 0.3% from the 80.6 million it received by March 24, 2023.
Of the 80.4 million returns received so far, just over 78 million of those were filed electronically, the IRS said — 40.3 million from professional tax preparers and another 37.7 million from self-preparers.
