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The delays come as the tax agency sends out a third round of payments and prepares to implement other key elements of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
IRS pushes filing deadline to May 17 as agency grapples with backlog of returns Tony Romm and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service announced on Wednesday it is postponing the country's tax-filing deadline until May 17, as the agency grapples with a mounting backlog of 24 million returns awaiting processing since the 2019 tax year. The workload has put the agency underwater - and under political siege - as lawmakers fret that long-unresolved troubles at the IRS could undercut the Biden administration's economic recovery ...
IRS pushes filing deadline to May 17 as agency grapples with backlog of returns Lawmakers fear that long-unresolved troubles at the Internal Revenue Service could undercut the Biden administration’s new economic recovery efforts. By Tony Romm and Jeff SteinThe Washington Post Share WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced on Wednesday it is postponing the country’s tax-filing deadline until May 17, as the agency grapples with a mounting backlog of 24 million returns awaiting processing since the 2019 tax year. The workload has put the agency underwater – and under politic...
IRS pushes filing deadline to May 17 as agency grapples with backlog of returns Tony Romm, Jeff Stein © Bloomberg/Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomber U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 1040 Individual Income Tax forms for the 2016 tax year are arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Due to the Emancipation day holiday, this year\'s income taxes will need to be filed by April 18 instead of April 15. Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg The Internal Revenue Service announced on Wednesday it is postponing the c...
WASHINGTON — The IRS is expected to push back the country’s tax-filing deadline to May 15, according to two people familiar with the decision, as the agency grapples with a massive backlog of 24 million returns it has yet to process since the 2019 tax year. The mounting work has left the agency underwater in recent months, and under political siege, as lawmakers come to fear that long-unresolved troubles at the IRS could undercut the Biden administration’s new economic recovery efforts. Millions of Americans still have not received stimulus checks under prior coronavirus aid packages...