Americans Aren’t Filing Their Taxes This Year

Almost six million returns are missing, and there’s only five weeks left. What’s going on?
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Are millions of Americans just forgetting to file their taxes this year?

More than halfway through the 2017 filing season, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service reported receiving 5.7 million fewer individual returns than at a comparable point last year. That’s an 8.5 percent drop.