Welcome 2023. We’re slowly getting back to a semblance of normal. We got regular tax deadlines last year and the Internal Revenue Service climbed out from underneath most of its filing backlog. Please, can we finish the job this year?
That piled up paperwork is exactly the kind of thing you can expect to see in the ol’ blog’s By the Numbers count. In fact, 4.2 million such returns made it onto the 2022 numbers page; the year before the recognized figure was 15.6 million.
And in the very first By the Numbers of this new year, fittingly on Jan. 1 of this year (and linked to a little later in this post), the IRS reported it had 2.5 million unprocessed individual returns. We’ll see how soon it gets closer to zero over the next 12 months.
In the meantime, there will be plenty of other tax-related numbers. After all, what are taxes without all the digits?
What counts? When it comes to keeping count, By the Numbers recognition can go to just about any and every thing that can be connected in even a remote way to taxes.
The potential figures range from tax rate percentages to dollar amounts to titles of tax legislation to raw numbers and more. Much, much more.
If it can be associated (per my judgement) with taxes, federal or state, it counts!
And yes, I am the final judge and arbiter. So you know sometimes the math might not seem to add up. No worries. This isn’t something the IRS is going to audit!
Weekend counting: In keeping with the counting tradition, the By the Numbers honorees will be added to this page’s running roster after they are highlighted in a post.
That usually will be on Sundays. Sometimes, though, a number gets early recognition, showing up on Saturday or even at the end of the traditional work week. And if some breaking tax news forces its way onto the ol’ blog on Sunday, then the number will appear the next week.
But whenever they show up, they are counted.
Regardless of the timing, you can always find the numbers at the link in the ol’ blog’s right column under the multicolored numbers box, the same one that’s pictured on this page. A click there will bring you to this collection of the all the year’s tax numbers, with the most recent figure and blog post at the top of the list.
So here we go into the lucky 13th year of the ol’ blog’s numerical tradition.
- 43,944
Odometer check time and other business mileage tax basics (Dec. 31, 2023) - 3
Tax and other gifts of the MAGI (Dec. 24, 2023) - $628 million
Airbnb to pay $628 million to settle Italian tax dispute (Dec. 17, 2023) - $17,000
3 welcome, and tax-advantaged, holiday gifts (Dec. 10, 2023) - $5.6 billion
Tax refund advance business loses a banking partner (Dec. 3, 2023) - Nov. 27 through Dec. 1
Online security missteps during the holidays could lead to identity theft and tax fraud (Nov. 26, 2023) - $105,000
QCD direct donations increase to $105,000 in 2024 (Nov. 19, 2023) - 10
Standard tax deduction amounts get inflation bump for 2024 (Nov. 12, 2023) - 10-31-2025
IRS extends digital signature, certain email options (Nov. 5, 2023) - 13
Added Halloween scare: sales tax on treats (Oct. 29, 2023) - IRS Forms 941-X, 943-X, 944-X, CT-1X
IRS allows businesses to withdraw improper ERC claims (Oct. 22, 2023) - $668 billion
Tax Gap grows to $688 billion per latest IRS calculations (Oct. 15, 2023) - 49
Farmers & ranchers in 49 states get drought tax relief (Oct. 8, 2023) - Feb. 15, 2024
Saltwater seeping into the Mississippi leads to tax relief for some Louisianans (Oct. 1, 2023) - $6,517
New Jersey is number one in property taxes (Sept. 24, 2023) - 3,700
IRS to hire 3,700 nationwide to expand tax compliance efforts (Sept. 17, 2023) - Sept. 11
Honoring 9/11 heroes by volunteering on Patriot Day (Sept. 10, 2023) - Oct. 31, 2023
Alaska, Illinois taxpayers in spring/summer disaster areas now have Oct. 31 tax deadline (Sept. 3, 2023) - Notice 2023-62
IRS delays Roth workplace retirement plan catch-up requirement to 2026 (Aug. 27, 2023) - Feb. 15, 2024
Hawai’i wildfire victims granted federal tax relief, including new Feb. 15, 2024, deadline (Aug. 20, 2023) - 13 percent
Mega Millions winner will owe more tax than what’s withheld (Aug. 13, 2023) - Notice 2023-59
A home energy audit could produce lower utility bills and a tax credit (Aug. 6, 2023) - $4.7 trillion
New report predicts $4.7 trillion in global tax avoidance and evasion losses over next decade (July 30, 2023) - 0.25 percent
AI can help the IRS do its job. Are we ready for that? (July 23, 2023) - 35
IRS opening new and closed TACs, visiting areas not near agency offices (July 16, 2023) - 292,201,338-to-1 and 302,575,350-to-1
6 tax and financial tips for new lottery millionaires (July 9, 2023) - 15
15-year-old becomes world’s youngest CPA (July 2, 2023) - 2 percent
Tennessee betting gambling tax change will pay off (June 25, 2023) - $10.5 million
IRS issued $10.5 million in miscalculated Child Tax Credits (June 18, 2023) - 24
24 states are part of recent tax-cutting trend, but what’s the broader cost? (June 11, 2023) - IRS Publications 584 and 584-B
Document your property for tax, insurance claims before storms hit (June 4, 2023) - 1.2 million
Memorial Day remembrances of those who sacrificed all (May 28, 2023) - 12,617 and $105.3 million
IRS flags 1.1 million possibly fraudulent tax returns, stops $105.3 million in illegal refunds (May 21, 2023) - $13,194
Missing appraisals reduce donor’s charitable tax deduction (May 14, 2023) - $29 and $85
$141 million going to 4.4 million TurboTax users who shouldn’t have paid to file (May 7, 2023) - Treas. Reg. §301.7508A-1(d)(2)
Oklahoma tornado victims get Aug. 31 deadline for some federal tax filings, payments (April 29, 2023) - $169,820
Peeking at Biden, Harris 2022 tax returns (April 23, 2023) - 81 percent
Inflation tops tax worries, according to one survey (April 16, 2023) - (267) 941-1000
How international taxpayers can get IRS help (April 9, 2023) - 2007, 2012, 2016, 2019, and 2022
IRS needs to improve its Tax Gap estimation methodology (April 2, 2023) - 6
Letting the IRS figure your taxes (March 26, 2023) - 31 percent
Form 4868, the tax procrastinator’s best friend (March 19, 2023) - 5 years and 30 years
Not reporting illegal income is a tax crime (March 12, 2023) - $1,050 and $2,100
Child care tax credit returns to lower pre-COVID levels, but still worth a look (March 5, 2023) - $3,140
Where’s your tax refund? Use IRS online tracker to find out (Feb. 26, 2023) - 1,907
Last year’s number of IRS regs was lowest in 24 years (Feb. 19, 2023) - $16,806,838
Food, brew, and art on the line in Super Bowl LVII bets (Feb. 12, 2023) - 28
Tax moves to make in February 2023 (Feb. 5, 2023) - $650 & $3,733 & $6,164 & $6,935
Don’t miss out on EITC, but note the 2022 tax return changes (Jan. 28, 2023) - 10
Top 10 IRS criminal tax cases in 2022 include reality TV stars, a celebrity attorney, and Ponzi schemes (Jan. 22, 2023) - $14.8 billion
IRS issues 12 million refunds to correct errant 2020 unemployment filings (Jan. 15, 2023) - 65.5 cents
Time to track your 2023 tax deductible business miles (Jan. 8, 2023) - 2023
Tax happenings in 2022, and what to expect in 2023 (Jan. 1, 2023)
Need more numbers? You can recount the featured figures from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
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