INDIANAPOLIS - Tax return e-filing for this year ended Oct. 15 and Kentucky taxpayers e-filed more than 1.3 million federal income tax returns during 2009, up 2 percent from last year.

With a projected 1.9 million paper and electronic returns to be filed by Kentucky taxpayers by the end of the year, 72 percent of tax filers in the state chose electronic filing over paper.

"Each year more Kentucky taxpayers e-file their return," said IRS spokeswoman Jodie Reynolds. "It's fast, easy, secure and for most filers it's available at no cost."

Nationwide, a record 95 million returns, over 67 percent of the total returns filed, were e-filed in 2009.

Taxpayers who e-file from a home computer continue to be an increasingly significant segment of those who e-file. More than 383,000 Kentucky taxpayers filed from home computers in 2009.>