The data is culled from the 20 million 2008 tax returns filed with TurboTax in April 2009. Here’s the list, with last year’s ranking noted in parentheses.<\/p>\n
1. Houston, Texas (last year, #2)<\/p>\n
2. Chicago, Ill. (#4)<\/p>\n
3. New York, N.Y. (#3)<\/p>\n
4. Austin, Texas (#11)<\/p>\n
5. San Francisco, Calif. (#1)<\/p>\n
6. Seattle, Wash. (#7)<\/p>\n
7. San Diego, Calif. (#5)<\/p>\n
8. Los Angeles, Calif. (#8)<\/p>\n
9. Dallas, Texas (#9)<\/p>\n
10. Las Vegas, Nev. (#10)<\/p>\n
Phoenix, Ariz., dropped out of the top ten this year, coming in thirteenth. This phenomenon of states dropping significantly could be caused either by fewer people filing overall, or because unemployment is higher, therefore more taxpayers are eager to receive their refunds more quickly, says Bob Meighan<\/strong>, the vice president of Turbo Tax. Some 80% of filers receive a refund and the average refund is around $2,700, he says.<\/p>\n Another factor that Mr. Meighan says can impact when people filing: weather. Natural disasters can delay returns for cities. As for Houston being number one this year, \u0093I have no idea,\u0094 says Mr. Meighan.<\/p>\n TurboTax uses the data to coordinate staffing their call centers. In spite of their best attempts, there\u0092s always a significant surge of traffic during the final hours of tax day. \u0093Basically 75% of our infrastructure is built to accommodate one day of the year,\u0094 Mr. Meighan says.<\/p>\n Filing late can have downsides, other than the obvious, not receiving one\u0092s tax return more quickly. It leaves taxpayers less time to ask questions about returns, clogs customer service lines and drives accountants crazy.<\/p>\n However, taxpayers can file for an extension till October 15. That\u0092s Mr. Meighan\u0092s plan.<\/p>\n \u0093I\u0092m too busy helping out with other people\u0092s returns,\u0094 he says. \u0093It\u0092s the last thing I want to think about.\u0094<\/p>\n Read more about taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n The Lone Star State is in no rush to file taxes. As we slide toward the April 15 tax filing deadline, Intuit Inc., makers of Turbo Tax software, has released data about which U.S. cities are waiting the longest to file tax returns. Houston is on top, with Chicago and New York trailing behind in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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