Dum-De-Dum-Dum....tax filing day is here! 
Are You Ready To File Your Tax Return or extension?
The IRS website offers the information you need for
Filing Your Taxes
Topic 301 - When, How, and Where to File
When to file
Generally, April 15 of each year is the due date for filing your federal individual income tax return if you are a calendar year filer whose tax year ends on December 31. If you use a fiscal year (which is a year ending on the last day of any month other than December), your return is due on or before the 15th day of the fourth month after the close of your fiscal year. If the due date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the due date is delayed until the next business day (for example, Friday, April 15, 2016, is Emancipation Day, so tax year 2015 returns are due Monday, April 18, 2016. Taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts observe Patriots' Day on April 18, 2016, so they will have until Tuesday, April 19, 2016 to file). Your return is considered filed timely if the envelope is properly addressed and postmarked by the due date.
If you served or are serving in a combat zone or a contingency operation, or become hospitalized resulting from an injury received while serving in such an area or operation, after the end of your tax year but before the normal filing due date of your return, you may have additional time to file and pay taxes. You have at least 180 days after you leave the designated combat zone/contingency operation to file and pay taxes. See Publication 3, Armed Forces' Tax Guide. If the Service determines you to be affected by a presidentially declared disaster or a terroristic or military action, you may have up to one year after the due date of your return to file and pay taxes, depending on the deadline specified by the Service. If you are living and working outside the United States and Puerto Rico, please refer to the instructions in Form 4868 (PDF), Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, and to Topic 304.
Extensions to file - If you cannot file by the due date of your return, then you can request an extension of time to file. To receive an automatic 6-month extension of time to file your return, you can file Form 4868 by the due date of your return. See Topic 304 for more information. However, an extension of time to file is not an extension of time to pay. You will owe interest on any past-due tax and you may be subject to a late-payment penalty if the payment of tax is not made by the original due date of your return.
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Yes, the trip to the post office to send the taxes will be happening today!
Mine were filed in February, I already got my return and it all went towards the new "rear end" on my car.
Good morning Lisa. For years filed an extension because of some investments. Now tax day is another day as my refund is in my bank account! Enjoy your day.
Good morning Lisa. I am thinking of you for the flooding and not so much the taxes.
Good Morning Lisa Von Domek
In Massachusetts we are able to file tomorrow April 19th. Today is Patriot's Day and a state holiday. Extension BUT still have to send in the tax payment.
Lisa, mailed my tax checks last week, so there would no delay, very painful!
Good morning, Lisa Von Domek ours is tomorrow.... thankfully, they received mine a month ago....
Hello Carolyn Crispin hopefully the lines at the post office will not be long!
Well, it went for a good thing Roger D. Mucci but it would have been more fun to spend it on something else, right?!!
That's the way to do it Wayne Martin !
Thank you, Sheila Anderson the Dallas area has been fortunate so far. Outlying areas, were really hit hard. And Houston has areas that had up to 16" of rain, they are really in trouble with flooding.
Hello Doug Dawes thanks for the explanation on the extra day for your area...I was wondering what that was for. Happy Patriot's Day!
I agree, Joan Cox it is always a painful day when you have to send even more to the IRS after paying them all year long!
I am sure that many in your area are taking advantage of the extra filing day Barbara Todaro
. Happy Patriot's Day!
Lisa,
We had all the books done by the end of January. A
That's the way to handle the tax man Ron and Alexandra Seigel (Alexandra)
Hi Lisa, I am all done with taxes, the pain of writing that check is fading. Have a great day
Lisa, we have been working for free so far this year since Washington takes at least 25% - 30% of most taxpayers income.
Noah Seidenberg the pain of that check is felt by many!
And we work for free a little longer each year George Souto
This is exactly why I hire my CPA to do all my personal and business taxes. I don't want to deal with them and she knows all the tricks of the trade.
Without my CPA, I might lose my mind Nicole Doty - Gilbert Real Estate Expert
This is never a fun day for us self-employed Realtors. I was working on mine last night but they are done and filed!
Ours were filed a while ago. We have already spent the refund. LOL
Good for you Belinda Spillman that's cause to relax today!
I know that you are not alone there Sharon Tara I know that many already have theirs filed and refund deposited too!
Glad this not so welcome chore is out of the way.....and on to the quarterly estimates !
Hi Lisa - I can never figure it out. I am done with mine but not sure if New York follows MA since that is the region we are in.
Ugh. Sally and David just reminded me that it's still to do those stupid quarterly reports for my business too... death and taxes.... we can't escape either.
Sally K. & David L. Hanson yes, there is always another tax to pay waiting in the wings!
I still don't know why it was changed to the 18th this year Grant Schneider . The 15th was a Friday, that should have been it!
No, you certainly can't Tammy Lankford and the government makes sure you don't forget to send them their overly large piece of your pie!
Hi Lisa. Tax confiscation day
Another deadline to be met, come and gone successfully! Until next year...
That's it exactly Conrad Allen ...tax confiscation day!
I am still wondering why the date was changed from the 15th to the 18th Evelyn Johnston . What was wrong with filing on a Friday?
Lisa
It would be easier to direct deposit our income checks into the IRS . . . . and IRS sends what's left to us on April 15th each year.
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig
I paid the piper, Lisa. Now the government can operate for a few minutes longer.
I'm SOOO glad I got my taxes done waaay early. The first time in many years. I tend to be running to the post office late in the day when they are due!
Don't give the IRS any ideas Lou Ludwig we could end up with this very thing!
That would be funny if it weren't so true Gabe Sanders ...I don't even want to know their hourly expense to us!
Getting taxes done early is a good thing Jeff Dowler CRS I am sure there were many standing in line at the Post Office and online waiting for their return to go through on eFile
It's reducing my debt and supporting America day! Great post, well done!
Now that is a positive way to look at the too high taxes that we pay Thomas.