Heads up, procrastinators! Your taxes are NOT due until Monday the 18th!

[KamaAina]

Not an April Fool's joke. Friday, you see, is a holiday (Emancipation Day) in D.C. While Federal workers don't actually get the day off, the rules say that the deadline can't fall on a holiday, just like it can't on a weekend. (Northeasterners who file in Andover, MA run across this frequently with respect to Patriots' Day.)

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110413/BIZ/704139769/1014/BIZ06

This Friday is April 15, the date synonymous with taxes, nervous twitches, occasional protests, sporadic cursing and late-night trips to the post office...

Thanks to a little-known Washington, D.C., holiday and some odd Internal Revenue Service rules, taxpayers have until Monday, April 18, to file their federal returns....

April 16 is Emancipation Day in Washington, commemorating President Abraham Lincoln's signing of an 1862 law freeing slaves in the District of Columbia. They were the first slaves freed by the federal government during the Civil War, and in 2005 the city government made the day an official local holiday.

Because April 16 falls on Saturday this year, the D.C. holiday will be celebrated on Friday, April 15.

The beauty part of it is, teabaggers from sea to shining sea will be holding their anti-tax rallies on Friday, blissfully unaware that it is not actually tax day!!! :rofl:

edit: check with your state about state taxes. CA will be honoring the extension.

[thereismore]

1. I have until Monday to file? nt

[KamaAina]

3. It would appear so.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=238335,00.html?portlet=7

With the Monday, April 18th federal income tax deadline rapidly approaching the IRS wants remind taxpayers about the self-help tools that are available to make filing taxes easier.

[thereismore]

4. Yes! Thank you. nt

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Taxes? Taxes are for smelly America proles." - Republicon FatCats

"We republicon fatcats don't pay no steenkin taxes. We don't do the fair share thingy. We let you American suckers pay for us. Sneer."

- Republicon FatCats

[jberryhill]

5. "Friday, you see, is a holiday"

Damn you, Rebecca Black!



We so excited!

[dems_rightnow]

6. It's a DC only holiday.

Then the IRS decided it wasn't fair to the rest of the country to make them file by the 15th, when DC had until the 18th.

This royally pissed off CPA's around the country.....

[RebelOne]

7. Did you have to remind me? I haven't filed yet. n/t