As Elijah Wolfson posits for Quartz, it's likely we'll see The Return's imprint on the medium in the next quarter century as a new style of prestige TV.
The chance of an individual tax return's being audited last year was less than one in 200, down from one in 112 in 1999 and one in 60 in 1996, new data and revised figures for last year show.
As a result, performance-chasing investors have run for the exit: Total Return's funds under management have shrunk from a high of $293 billion in 2013 to just $222 billion this month.
Conveniences like prepaid return labels, the ability to track a return's status by e-mail and the integration of online retailers and their offline counterparts are now for the most part standard.
Yet Weatherfield has also moved with the times: when Carla Connor comes close to exhausting the Rovers Return's supply of red wine, she sups champagne in the 23rd floor bar of the Beetham, where the real life cocktail list includes an "Ena Sparkles".
H. D. Vest Online is offering free federal and state return form preparation, regardless of income level or the return's degree of complication, with the hopes of attracting potential new customers to other financial services offered by the company, which is based in Irving, Tex.
