Online Tax Filers Will Get Extension After IRS Payment Website Outage (cnbc.com) 39
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The IRS will give last-minute filers additional time to file their tax returns after the page for paying their tax bills using their bank accounts crashed, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the Associated Press. The IRS "Direct Pay" page allows filers to transfer funds from their checking or savings account to pay what they owe. As of 5 p.m. ET on April 17 -- Tax Day -- the page was still unavailable. Direct Pay is a free service. The "Payment Plan" page, where filers can pay their tax bill in installments also appears to have crashed. "I'd strongly advise folks who owe any federal taxes and cannot pay online to mail a check or money order to the IRS to the appropriate address," said Patrick Thomas, director of Notre Dame Law School's Tax Clinic. According to a TurboTax spokesperson, the IRS's technical difficulties are affecting all tax preparers and tax returns. "Taxpayers should go ahead and continue to prepare and file their taxes as normal with TurboTax," the spokesperson said. "TurboTax has uninterrupted service and is available and accepting e-filed returns," she said. "We will hold returns until the IRS is ready to begin accepting them again." H&R Block said it will continue to accept returns from filers.
Good new for some (Score:3)
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In my case, I owned the IRS but my state owned me.
If your state owns you, shouldn't they be the one paying the federal tax?
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In California definitely,
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I couldn't resist sending the money on Friday the 13th. (I had an unexpected stock sale due to an acquisition, and the capital gains threw off my tax planning big-time.)
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I totally understand why the IRS is extending the deadline. It's just good customer service (which they don't necessarily have a reputation for). I'm sure it saves a lot of effort to just wait and receive electronic payment vs having to physically handle the paper checks in the mail. And lord knows nobody at the IRS wants to inadvertently make eye contact with the Orange God, lest they become his newest weapon of mass distraction.
That said, I spent too many years working in the college computer lab dealing
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When were they supposed to load test their servers? They had to keep them up and running so that everyone who didn't procrastinate was able to pay their taxes.
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Before January 29, 2018, when the fileable 2017 tax forms were finalized and released.
I love how some believe that it's unreasonable to expect the government to load test and reliably operate their servers, but reasonable to expect people to do their taxes before a deadline because the government might screw things up. Fortunately, they're not in cha
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I love how some people believe that jokes are serious.
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I love how some people attempt to walk back poorly thought-out statements by claiming afterwards that they were only jokes.
Your computer lab story was hilarious. Your distain for procrastinators was hysterical. The intended humor really shines through.
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Wow, so you really couldn't tell that the "when were they supposed to load test" post was a joke? I thought it was pretty fucking obvious, yet there you are responding with a serious rebuttal.
Speaking of which, your rebuttal was essentially to say it's a good thing people like me weren't in charge of the IRS. So going back to my first post, clearly you must not understand what the phrase "there's a part of me" means. You must be under the mistaken impression it means "defy all logic and reason and let my pe
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What he or she said. I am not alone, so perhaps you should reflect a bit more carefully.
Re:Good new for some (Score:5, Informative)
That's great news for the people who didn't get their taxes filed last February like I did.
I did mine back in early March (via the IRS's own freefillableforms.com). But, since I owed money, the date I picked for the IRS to withdraw the funds was today - and that withdrawal hasn't happened yet, which very well might be due to these problems.
So your implication that this only impacts last-minute filers is not necessarily accurate.
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... and at some point during the wee hours of February 18, the IRS finally got around to carving its pound of flesh out of our checking account.
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And accountants, some of the most conservative people on the planet, don't schedule things for the last minute. They always schedule payments a few days early because crap
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Good for Trump! (Score:2)
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It really makes no difference to him. Debts discharged in bankruptcy are not taxable income, so he's got nothing to report and nothing due.
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You messed it up:
https://youtu.be/ZnJcZ-5P8hE?t... [youtu.be]
With indemnification? (Score:2)
So TurboTax and H&R Block are willing to accept money! And get paid on putting that money to work between now and when the IRS "accepts" it, presumably via the same website. Now, the question is, if the IRS charges late fees, but TurboTax/H&R Block accepted the cas
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Employment forms (W-2s and the like) are due at the end of January. Other forms are allowed to take longer. I didn't get what I needed from my brokerage account until sometime in March. (Then I did the taxes while going through colonoscopy preparations, figuring that one would take my mind off the other.)
Which is why I file early (Score:2)
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If you owe them money?
In hindsight, I should have filed on line this year. Instead of sending them sacks of pennies. Postage due.