IRS to delay tax deadline by one day after agency's Tax Day technology collapse
Source: Washington Post
The Internal Revenue Service will let taxpayers submit tax returns without penalty through the end of Wednesday, extending the deadline a day after the agency’s systems for electronically filing returns were offline for most of the day Tuesday.
The agency’s electronic filing system came back online early Tuesday evening. But before that, the agency’s onle channels for direct tax payments, electronic filings and submissions filed via widely used tax preparation services such as TurboTax and H&R Block were not going through.
Approximately 5 million people were expected to file Tuesday before the original midnight deadline.
Several senior government officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the agency’s outdated technology failed amid the crush of last-minute filers.
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The Internal Revenue Services online system for submitting tax returns experienced widespread failures on Tuesday, complicating filing for the millions of taxpayers attempting to meet the governments midnight deadline.
On my way over here this morning, I was told a number of systems are down at the moment, IRS Acting Commissioner David J. Kautter told lawmakers at an oversight hearing Tuesday. We are working to resolve the issue and taxpayers should continue to file as they normally would.
Kautter said the agency was struggling to accept returns from the widely used tax software program TurboTax and the massive tax preparation company H&R Block. Taxpayers can use the services to complete their filings, but the filings are not being transmitted from the companies to the IRS, Kautter said.
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