If navigating your tax return has remained on the back burner until now, you can stretch the process out for three more days this year. That's right: This year's deadline is actually April 18.
This is all because of a fortuitous overlap of federal and state holidays with the usual April 15 due date.
Emancipation Day, an official holiday in the District of Columbia that usually falls on April 16, is on Friday, April 15 this year — pushing the tax deadline to the following Monday.
The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in Washington, D.C., when in 1862 the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act "freed 3,100 individuals, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and men money to emigrate," according to the D.C. mayor's office.
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3 comments:
What I don't like about any of this income tax stuff is that the post office has to pay overtime to employees to stay open late for a bunch of idiots that can't file on time! It should be regular hours only. Learn a life lesson fool!
Dear 9:50 -- 1980 called, and wants to thank you for still filing your tax return by paper. Nobody else does that any more, and the post office doesn't stay open late any longer, either.
10:13 if no one mails in taxes anymore, then why is the 15th. not still the deadline? Electronics don't need time off.
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