In prepared remarks Shulman told the IRS for fiscal year 2010 collected $ 2.3 trillion in gross revenues to support the federal government, about 93 percent of all federal government revenues, treated more than 140 million tax returns and issued refunds to 109.5 million individual taxpayers totaling $ 366 billion. He added that there were almost 305 million visits to IRS.gov - an increase of 14 percent over the same period in 2009.

About 75 percent of taxpayers, said Shulman, are now using electronic filing, making it "one of the modernization programs most successful in history."The agency processed 100 million returns electronically in 2010, including return mail 1 billionth of the option is available since 1986. The cost per electronic return, he added, was 17 cents compared with 3, $ 66 for a paper return. " In 20 years, my guess is the IRS will not take any paper returns, "he said.

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