How many ITIC tax returns are filed each year
Executive summary
The question as posed—"How many ITIC tax returns are filed each year"—is ambiguous in the available reporting: there is no authoritative source in the supplied documents that defines "ITIC tax returns" or gives a precise annual count for such returns [1] [2]. If the intended term is "ITIN" (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) returns, the taxpayer advocate and IRS materials say "millions" of tax returns include at least one ITIN each year, but none of the provided sources supply a single, exact annual count [1].
1. Clarifying the term: ITIC vs ITIN and why it matters
The supplied sources include an entry for the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC), which is a policy and research non-profit active internationally and not a category of U.S. tax return; that organization’s profile does not equate to a class of tax return that the IRS counts annually [2]. By contrast, the closely related acronym ITIN—Individual Taxpayer Identification Number—appears in reporting that directly addresses tax returns: the Taxpayer Advocate’s research notes that "millions of tax returns include at least one ITIN annually" and that ITIN filers contribute billions in revenue, but the report stops short of publishing a single headline figure for annual ITIN returns in the supplied excerpts [1].
2. What the IRS and related reporting do give us instead
The IRS Data Book and Statistics of Income publications provide reliable yearly totals for returns processed and other aggregate measures—266.6 million tax returns and forms processed in FY2024 and more than 162 million federal individual tax returns processed in a recent fiscal year—but those documents in the provided snippets do not isolate an annual count of returns that include ITINs specifically [3] [4]. The IRS also publishes detailed tables (Data Book Table 3 and SOI statistics) that break down returns by type and state, which are the logical sources to consult for any disaggregated count, but the excerpts here do not include a pre-computed ITIN count [5] [6].
3. What the Taxpayer Advocate report actually says about ITIN filings
The independent Taxpayer Advocate research excerpt emphasizes scale—"millions of tax returns include at least one ITIN annually" and that ITIN filers are predominantly low-income taxpayers with a median AGI—while noting that ITIN-related filings account for billions in tax revenue after credits; however, the extracts provided do not give a precise numeric total of ITIN-bearing returns per year [1]. The report also explains procedural context (Form W‑7 application rules and exceptions) that help explain why many but not all ITIN applications are paired with a return, but again the supplied text does not convert that process detail into an explicit annual count [1].
4. Why a precise annual number is not in the supplied reporting
None of the provided documents in the search results explicitly labels or tabulates "ITIC tax returns" or lists an exact annual count of tax returns containing ITINs; the IRS’s public-facing summaries focus on broad totals and the SOI datasets and Data Book tables contain granular files that would be used to derive such a number but were not excerpted here with that specific field extracted [3] [5] [6]. Therefore, asserting a concrete numeric answer from these sources would be beyond what the supplied reporting supports.
5. Where an exact figure would be found and how it would be reported
A definitive annual count of returns including ITINs would most likely be obtained by querying IRS SOI tables or the IRS Data Book supplemental spreadsheets—especially the "Number of returns filed, by type of return" tables and specific ITIN-focused analyses from the IRS or Taxpayer Advocate Service—and those are referenced in the supplied material as repositories of the raw tables even if the precise ITIN tally is not excerpted here [5] [3] [6]. Policymakers, journalists, or researchers seeking a single-year or trend count should request or extract the ITIN field from the SOI microdata or contact IRS statistics staff; none of the provided snippets, however, contain that exact derived number.
6. Bottom line answer
Based on the provided reporting: if "ITIC" refers to the International Tax and Investment Center, there is no such class of IRS tax return to count and no annual filing total is provided for it in these sources [2]. If the intended question is about ITIN-bearing returns, the supplied Taxpayer Advocate language confirms "millions" of returns include at least one ITIN each year, but no exact annual count is present in the documents supplied here [1]. For an exact numeric answer, the IRS SOI tables or a targeted IRS statistics query would be necessary [5] [3].