As the clock ticked toward the deadline for filing federal tax returns Friday, a new survey said that a majority of U.S. taxpayers have or will file online.

Sixty-eight percent of people have either filed online or intend to do so before Friday ends, according to a poll conducted by Feedback Research.

More people are doing their own taxes, the survey also claimed. Sixty-one percent of those who said they are not using a tax service or accountant have used or plan to use an online tax preparation site to wrap up their 2004 returns, a jump of 10 percent over last year.

Not surprisingly, the official Internal Revenue Service (IRS) site was the most popular online tax destination; 69 percent of the respondents said that they have or will view the irs.gov site. That jibed with actual traffic detected by Feedback, which indicated that the IRS site had 51.7 percent of total traffic to tax sites between February 1 and April 8. The commercial tax sites -- such as Turbotax.com with only 15 percent of traffic -- were far behind.

If last year is any indication, procrastinators will swarm onto the Web today to meet the midnight deadline. On April 15, 2004, 1.9 million visited the IRS site, for instance.