There is less than a week left from many people to meet the April 15th deadline.

Massachusetts and Maine residents have until the 17th.

The IRS reports the number of returns is down 1.4% compared with

this time last year. The average refund dropped $20 to just under $2,900.

That means the IRS has refunded more than $6 billion less this year.

CBS News Business Analyst, Jill Slesinger is here with what last minute filers need to know.

Good morning.

Hi, so if you're a procrastator what should you be doing well clear

your weekend schedule you know it's not going to be fun right so we want to make sure

that you gather up your documents and you figure out how you're going to file. The IRS says

please try to do it electronically and there's a few different resources. You know

that there are commercially available software programs you've heard of all of

them but there's also a really great

resource the IRS provides. IRS free file if you have income of less than

$66,000. It's great. There's also the fillable forms that come prepopulated. So this is a good idea.

I know if you've got a complicated situation, the idea could be, I must find somebody, but with a week to go,

I think finding a person who you can actually

sit down with is going to be tough. So 2018 returns are the first tax returns

right since the tax cuts and job backs and I saw that one account it was quoted

account was quoted in the New York Times and saying

this is the most complicated tax season ever.

So has it gotten harder?

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