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  • IRS deadline is April 17th

    Barbara Montour CPA|Apr 12, 2012

    United States Tax filers will have until Tuesday, April 17, to file their 2011 tax returns and pay any tax due because April 15 falls on a Sunday, and Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in the District of Columbia, falls this year on Monday, April 16. According to federal law, District of Columbia holidays impact tax deadlines in the same way that federal holidays do; therefore, all taxpayers will have two extra days to file this year. Tax filers requesting an extension will have until Oct. 15 to file their 2012 tax returns. An extension...

  • IRS Has $1 Billion for People Who Have Not Filed a 2008 Income Tax Return

    Barbara Montour CPA|Mar 1, 2012

    WASHINGTON — Refunds totaling more than $1 billion may be waiting for one million people who did not file a federal income tax return for 2008, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. However, to collect the money, a return for 2008 must be filed with the IRS no later than Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The IRS estimates that half of these potential 2008 refunds are $637 or more. Some people may not have filed because they had too little income to require filing a tax return even though they had taxes withheld from their wages or made q...