Questions about how many tax refunds were being issued, and in what amounts, turned early-season filing statistics into a political football — but many of the concerns raised ended up disappearing in the latest data available from the Internal Revenue Service (as of April 26, 2019).

That said, the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on tax season is pervasive and much in evidence in many of the statistics below — just not always in the way different sides of the aisle might expect.