Don’t count out the possibility of a tax refund big enough to pay off a credit card or take a Caribbean vacation yet.

While early data from the Internal Revenue Service shows the average $1,901 refund to individuals in 2019 is about 8.8 percent lower than the same time last year, less than a fifth of U.S. tax returns have been filed so far.

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