Nearly Seventy Percent of Tennesseans Now Using IRS e-File

November 3, 2009 |

NASHVILLE — Tax return e-filing for this year ended Oct. 15 and Tennesseans e-filed a record 1.96 million federal income tax returns in 2009. With a projected 2.82 million paper and electronic returns to be filed by Tennesseans by the end of the year, 69.6 percent of tax filers in the state chose electronic filing over paper. “Most Tennesseans have made the sensible switch to e-filing,” said IRS spokesman Dan Boone. “It’s fast, easy, secure and for most filers it’s available at no cost.”

Nationwide, a record 95 million returns, over 67 percent of the total returns filed, were e-filed in 2009.

Taxpayers who e-file from a home computer continue to be an increasingly significant segment of those who e-file. More than 32 million returns were filed from home computers in 2009, an increase of almost 20 percent over last year.

More than 3 million taxpayers nationwide filed their tax returns for free through the IRS Free File program. This year for the first time, taxpayers could also file directly to the IRS by completing a fill-in Form 1040 online at IRS.gov; 273,000 taxpayers used this new way to file.

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