Because April 15th falls on a Saturday Sunday and April 16th is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in Washington, DC, the IRS has extended the tax deadline until April 17 this year:
By law, filing and payment deadlines that fall on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday are timely satisfied if met on the next business day. Under a federal statute enacted decades ago, holidays observed in the District of Columbia have impact nationwide on tax issues, not just in D.C. Under recently-enacted city legislation, April 16 is a holiday in the District of Columbia. Officials recently became aware of the intersection of the national filing day and the local observance of the new Emancipation Day holiday after most forms and publications for the current tax filing season went to print.
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Lia on February 2nd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
April 15, 2007, actually falls on a Sunday, not a Saturday.
Dane on February 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
Ooops. Thanks! I fixed the day.