Taxes not due today!!
With April 15, the usual deadline, falling on a Sunday, the returns would have been due Monday. Under federal law, tax filing and payment deadlines are extended to the next business day when they fall on weekends or legal holidays.
Under a recently enacted law, April 16 is Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia, marking the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's 1862 signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act, freeing the approximately 3,100 slaves held in the District of Columbia.
A federal law enacted decades ago requires holidays observed in the District of Columbia to have impact nationwide on tax issues.
Internal Revenue Service officials had said they became aware of the District of Columbia's new holiday resulting in the extension of the tax filing deadline too late for the information to be included on most forms and publications for this year's taxes. The IRS announced the revised deadline on Jan. 24.
So what does that mean to you? You get to wait until Tuesday to start filling out your forms!!! But be sure and get them to the post office before they close, I don't think they are staying late these days to help get those midnight postmarks.


















0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home