This is possibly the most boring post ever, but I'd thought some of you last minute losers might benefit.
Taxpayers Have Until April 17 to File Form 1040, Other Forms, Due to Legal Holiday in District of Columbia (IR-2007-15)
The IRS has announced that taxpayers will have until Tuesday, April 17, 2007 to file 2006 individual tax returns (and certain other forms) and pay any taxes due. The filing date was extended because April 15 falls on a Sunday in 2007 and the following day, April 16, is Emancipation Day, a newly instituted legal holiday in the District of Columbia. Under a federal statute enacted decades ago, legal holidays observed in the District of Columbia have nationwide impact on federal tax deadlines. IRS officials became aware of the application of this statute with respect to the April 16 Emancipation Day holiday only recently, after forms and publications for the 2006 tax year had gone to print. These forms and publications will not be updated, but the IRS website will include information on the new filing deadline.
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Since no one will comment, I'll have to do it on my own post.
Did anyone notice the reason for the holiday?
Why don't we recognize President's day anymore? George Washington's birthday? Confederate Independence Day?
And the fact that a holiday recognized only by Washington DC stalls the entire tax paying population from getting their returns in?
The point is, the Federal Government makes no sense.
...which is why it should be abolished.
"The natural tendency of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield" - Thomas Jefferson
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