IRS provides additional day to file and pay for taxpayers through Wednesday, April 18

Issue Number:    IR-2018–100

Inside This Issue

IRS pro­vides addi­tion­al day to file and pay for tax­pay­ers through Wednes­day, April 18; IRS pro­cess­ing sys­tems back online WASHINGTON — The Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice announced today that it is pro­vid­ing tax­pay­ers an addi­tion­al day to file and pay their tax­es fol­low­ing sys­tem issues that sur­faced ear­ly on the April 17 tax dead­line. Indi­vid­u­als and busi­ness­es with a fil­ing or pay­ment due date of April 17 will now have until mid­night on Wednes­day, April 18. Tax­pay­ers do not need to do any­thing to receive this extra time. The IRS encoun­tered sys­tem issues Tues­day morn­ing. Through­out the sys­tem out­age, tax­pay­ers were still able to file their tax returns elec­tron­i­cal­ly through their soft­ware providers and Free File. Tax­pay­ers using paper to file and pay their tax­es at the dead­line were not affect­ed by the sys­tem issue. “This is the busiest tax day of the year, and the IRS apol­o­gizes for the incon­ve­nience this sys­tem issue caused for tax­pay­ers,” said Act­ing IRS Com­mis­sion­er David Kaut­ter. “The IRS appre­ci­ates everyone’s patience dur­ing this peri­od. The extra time will help tax­pay­ers affect­ed by this sit­u­a­tion.” The IRS advised tax­pay­ers to con­tin­ue to file their tax­es as nor­mal Tues­day evening – whether elec­tron­i­cal­ly or on paper. Auto­mat­ic six-month exten­sions are avail­able to tax­pay­ers who need addi­tion­al time to file can vis­it https://​www​.irs​.gov/​f​o​r​ms-pub­s/ex­ten­sion-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return.Talk to Our U.S. Tax Advi­sors