Jan 5, 2012 7:34am
IRS Extends 2011 Tax Filing Date
EmailThe IRS said Wednesday that taxpayers will have two extra days this year to file their 2011 returns.
The April 17 deadline this year comes via two quirks of the calendar. The standard tax filing day of April 15 falls on a Sunday this year, so the date would be moved to April 16. But that day is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia.
The holiday celebrates the day in 1862 when President Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed about 3,100 slaves in the district. Under federal law, D.C. holidays affect tax deadlines, just like federal holidays do, thus taxpayers get an extra day.
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They need to move it to May15. The last few years I’ve still been getting tax documents in March. Last year I got one on April 18. I’m tired of having to file amendments. Either enforce companies getting the info out by Jan 31 or push back the filing due date.
Posted by: pgdion | January 5, 2012, 8:38 am 8:38 am
Tax consumption and dates wouldn’t matter.
Posted by: Give Me a Break | January 5, 2012, 9:00 am 9:00 am
Let’s just go with a flat tax or a consumption tax – then filing dates and all the other nonsense of loopholes, etc would be solved!!!
Posted by: tired-of-it-all | January 5, 2012, 9:29 am 9:29 am
……The defective reasoning goes like this, You can’t hold the economy hostage to a consumption tax. Too many important people lose their jobs, and then feel useless enough to make certain it will never happen. Short list: Accountants, bookkeepers, IRS, tax lawyers(by the ton), and who knows who else via a lack of trickle down money.
Posted by: RP---STAR | January 5, 2012, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm