IRS Oversight Board wants e-filing goal deadline postponed to 2011.

• Position: National

The IRS Oversight Board recommended in its annual report that the IRS extend its e-filing goal to 2011.

Currently, the goal is to have 80 percent of all returns filed electronically by 2007. In 2005, almost 52 percent of returns were e-filed.

The board based its recommendation on analysis of e-filing trends and projected that the 80-percent goal would be attained in five years providing that current trends continue.

While the board praised the IRS for promoting both e-filing and a variety of other electronic...