Tax Day arrived Monday, with millions of Americans still struggling to get their income tax returns filed, The Associated Press reports.
As of April 8, the Internal Revenue Service had received more than 103 million returns and issued refunds totaling $204 billion to more than 63 million taxpayers. Last year, more than 169 million people filed returns, meaning that at that point 40 percent or so still had yet to file.
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