IRS tax statistics

Your tax dollars at work
The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) maintains a complete set of statistics on all returns.
 * Tax Statistics - Produced by the Statistics of Income Division and Other Areas of the Internal Revenue Service

Here you will find a wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system. A lot of the information is available as a free download.

Available from the IRS:
 * Business Tax Statistics
 * Corporations, International, Partnerships, Nonfarm Sole Proprietorships, S Corporations
 * Charitable & Exempt Org. Statistics
 * Charities, Exempt Org. Master File, Private Foundations, Trusts, Tax-Exempt Bonds
 * Individual Tax Statistics
 * Filing Season Statistics, Estate & Gift Tax, Individual Income Tax, International, Personal Wealth
 * Statistics by Form
 * 706, 709, 990, 990-PF, 990-T, 1040, 1041, 1065, 1118, 1120, 5471, 5472, 8038
 * IRS Operations, Budget & Compliance
 * Issuing Refunds, Collecting Revenue, Enforcing Laws, Assisting Taxpayers


 * Products, Publications, & Papers
 * SOI Bulletins, IRS Data Books, Conference Papers, SOI Paper Series, Historical Data Tables

A free Excel Viewer for Office 2003 or earlier is available from Microsoft (link found on IRS web site).
 * Excel Viewer 2003