The organized. The on-the-ball. The people who want their money now, thank you.

The week before tax day, April 15, is not about them.

It’s about the 30 percent of Last Minute Larrys, taxpayers who put off that paperwork as long as they legally can.

Manny Papel had a few at his door Monday at 8 a.m.

“A lot of people are scared to file online,” said Papel, manager of Liberty Tax Service’s Lewiston and Portland offices. “People have been holding up all the way to the end (saying) they don’t have time to file, so we’ve got those clients also. People using third-party software, a lot of people get confused on that, so we’ve got quite a few people like those, too.”

As of late last week, the state had processed 493,000 of the roughly 675,000 income tax returns it expects this season, according to Dennis Doiron, director of Maine Revenue Services’ income-tax division.

That’s a very typical pace, he said. “We get a lot of returns at the last minute.”

Of those processed, 84 percent of Mainers had filed electronically; 350,000 had received refunds already averaging $546; and 72 percent had opted for direct deposit, the rest for paper checks.

On the federal income tax return front, Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman Peggy Riley said 427,000 returns, or 67 percent of all anticipated Maine returns, had been filed by April 4. Of those, 92 percent were filed electronically.

Nationally, the average refund is $2,872.

“We had a late start to the tax filing season, but once we began the season, everything has gone smoothly,” Riley said.

Doiron said the state’s season had been busy but smooth, with a lot more phone lines lighting up.

Last March, Maine Revenue’s helpline fielded 9,100 calls. Last month, it answered 15,000.

“All the way through, we’ve had a real higher volume of calls,” Doiron said. “We don’t keep track of exactly why they’re calling but it’s pretty clear that a lot of these were people calling about this new Property Tax Fairness Credit.”

New this year, it replaced the old “Circuit Breaker” program and applies to homeowners and renters earning $40,000 or less who paid disproportionally high property tax or rent compared to their income.

The refundable credit is either $300 or $400.

“Even if you don’t have a tax obligation you can file and claim this credit,” he said, which is bringing out some people who haven’t filed in years.

For any late Larrys looking to avoid a penalty: Returns with taxes due will be accepted electronically through midnight Tuesday. Paper returns need to be postmarked April 15. And sorry — there’s no extended hours for any post offices in Maine, according to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Maine tax time, by the numbers

493,000: Maine income tax returns processed as of April 10

675,000: Number of anticipated total returns for this tax season

84: Percent of returns filed electronically

350,000: Refunds processed so far

$546: Average refund amount

72: Percent of refunds delivered by direct deposit

SOURCE: Maine Revenue Services

In its 11th year, the LA CA$H Coalition helped a record number of low-income families file income tax returns for a record level of refunds.

Coalition Co-chairwoman Dottie Perham-Whittier said 22 IRS-certified volunteers helped file returns for free for 2,042 Twin City residents, up from 1,783 last year.

In all, filers were due $2.87 million in federal refunds and $701,000 in state refunds.

Lewiston City Administrator Ed Barrett has praised the program for returning money to local pockets to be spent in the local economy.

The 11-year tally for LA CA$H is $22.5 million in refunds.

In 2014, it was also the busiest coalition of the 10 spread around Maine.

“Our coalition alone did 43 percent of the returns that were done statewide,” Perham-Whittier said. “I think a lot of it is word of mouth. I think it’s just a really well-respected environment that people tell their friends and family about.”