e-filing

As April 18 quickly approaches, millions of procrastinators are scrambling to get their tax returns finished by the Monday deadline. Many of them will be e-filing, which the Internal Revenue Service itself recommends. But all e-filing sites are not the same. In fact, one site,...

Now that the tax filing season is in full swing -- and the IRS is processing all returns -- taxpayers are clamoring to find out how quickly they can get their refunds. Here are a few tips:

Every year about this time, I receive a lot of mail from seniors who are confused about whether they should file a tax return. The confusion stems from the fact that many seniors receive income from sources that might not be taxable, such as Social Security and tax-exempt bonds. Whether you're a...

If the trend in e-filing continues, the IRS expects more than 100 million individual taxpayers to file their tax returns electronically for the 2009 tax year. More than one-third of those taxpayers will file by personal computer; the remainder will use a professional tax preparer or free file at...

Chances are, you filed your federal taxes electronically this year. According to the IRS, about two out of every three individual taxpayers elected to e-file in 2009, up almost 6% from returns filed electronically in 2008. That works out to just a few million returns shy of 100 million individual...

If you're not filing your federal income tax returns electronically, you are in the minority. The Internal Revenue Service has seen a big jump in the number of taxpayers using e-file over the last 10 years. In 2008, almost 58% of the 155 million tax returns filed were filed electronically, and it's...