Georgia Set Records for Electronic Tax Returns
Monday, April 28th, 2014
Georgia and South Carolina set new records this year for the number of income tax returns filed electronically with the Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency’s regional office announced this week.
Georgia taxpayers filed 3.5 million 2013 returns electronically with the IRS this year, up from 2.9 million in 2012, while South Carolina filed 1.7 million 2013 returns electronically, up from 1.4 million.
Mark Green, spokesman for the IRS’s regional office in Atlanta, said the new records blew him away, particularly because the federal agency got a late start to the tax season and lost several business days to ice, snow and the partial government shutdown last October.
“This is huge,” said Green, one of the two coordinators who first initiated Georgia’s e-file program with the IRS in 1989. “I have seen it start with 300 electronic returns, which we thought was amazing, up until today, with taxpayers filing millions of returns online.”
