The IRS announced today that its annual Data Book is available. The IRS Data Book is published annually 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. Further, the report provides information on a state by state basis. The link to the Data Book is at the end of this post.
Here are some of the highlights from the report:
- The IRS collected more than $1.9 trillion in taxes, net of refunds, and processed more than 236 million returns.
- Nearly 110 million returns, including 66 percent of individual income tax returns, were filed electronically.
- Nearly 124 million individual income tax return filers received a tax refund and/or economic stimulus payment during the fiscal year.
- Individual income tax refunds totaled $321.3 billion, and economic stimulus payments totaled over $11.5 billion.
- In fiscal year 2009, IRS spent an average of 50 cents to collect each $100 of tax revenue.
- IRS examined more than 1.4 million individual income tax returns and about 28,000 returns filed by corporations, excluding S corporations.
- IRS personnel answered nearly 68 million toll-free calls from taxpayers during the fiscal year, and the IRS Web site received more than 296 million visits.