The Statistics of Income Division has released Fiscal Year Return Projections for the United States: 2005-2012 (Doc. 6292):

IRS Document 6292 contains multi-year projections of the number of tax returns to be filed with the IRS by fiscal year of filing. The publication includes detailed projections by approximately 50 different individual, business and tax-exempt return types such as Form 1040, Form 1120, Form 941 and Form 990. There is also additional detail by medium of filing (paper versus electronic) and by IRS business operating division categorizations.

The following chart shows the projected increases in the number of returns and in the percentage of returns filed electronically.

Tax Return Projections
	2004 Actual		2012 Projection
	Number	% of Total	Number	% of Total
Total Returns	225.8 million	–	225.8 million	–
…..Paper	155.8 million	69.0%	124.5 million	50.5%
…..Electronic	69.9 million	31.0%	122.1 million	49.5%
Individ. Returns	130.6 million	–	142.9 million	–
…..Paper	69.3 million	53.1%	41.7 million	29.2%
…..Electronic	61.2 million	46.9%	101.2 million	70.8%