HMRC issued a press release that over 40% more taxpayers filed online this year than last year.

According to the press release,

• A hundred and fifty thousand self assessment returns were received in the 24 hours running up to Wednesday's 31 January midnight deadline.
• During the filing peak, the HM Revenue & Customs website was processing more than six thousand returns each hour-more than a hundred every minute, almost two per second.
• Almost 2.9 million (2,895,482) people chose to file their returns online this year.

A copy of the press release has been reproduced at Section 2.23.