The following may delay and/or reduce a refund: A tax return that has errors A taxpayer and/or spouse, if filing a joint return, who has any outstanding unpaid assessments,
Overall, for all areas of the law, federal civil trials have declined 60 percent since the mid-1980s. In 2002, less than 2 percent of those cases ended in a trial â down from 12 percent in 1962 and 20 percent in the 1920s. Less than 5 percent of criminal cases go to trial; most result in plea bargains.
In the period from 2001 through 2008, the number of civil cases tried, whether to a jury or to the court, declined from 272 in 2001 to 190 in 2008, a 30% decline. Although not a straight line, the general downward trend in unmistakable.