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Posted on 04/17/2018 11:42:14 AM PDT by tired&retired
Been frustrated all day trying to get several dozen tax returns e-filed. Fox News just announced the system broke down.. and the deadline is extended.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/irs-tax-payment-site-down-as-agency-works-to-resolve-issue.html
IRS payment site crashes hours before Tax Day filing deadline
The “Direct Pay” page, where filers can wire money from a bank account to pay their tax bill, crashes on Tax Day.
The “Payment Plan” page, where filers can pay their tax bill in installments also appears to have crashed.
Mighty kind of them.....
I’m a jerk. I always owe at the end of the year and I always mail in my returns via snail mail. :)
I’ll do it for as long as I can.
dont these clowns know there is something called ‘FILING EXTENSION’?
I’m to see my accountant tonight and in the past 10 years did file an extension 4 times. No biggie. an email to the IRS is already accepted.
I used the old stand in line at the Post Office method.
10 min for 4 certified envelopes.
fourth in line.
“Currently, certain IRS systems are experiencing technical difficulties,” an IRS spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNBC. “Taxpayers should continue filing their tax returns as they normally would.” The spokeswoman didn’t say when the system went down.
IRS Acting Commissioner David J. Kautter told The Washington Post that filers wouldn’t be penalized if their returns were late due to the site’s problems. Normally, you’re liable for penalties if you fail to file your return and pay your taxes in a timely fashion.
“We understand that the IRS is experiencing technical difficulties today with the transmission of direct tax return payments,” said Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
“Given this news, I hope that the IRS will make accommodations so that every taxpayer attempting to file today has a fair shot to do so without penalty,” he said.
A spokesperson at commercial tax preparer TurboTax said that the IRS’s technical difficulties affects all tax preparers and tax returns.
Is this due, in large measure, to Koskinen’s approval of illegal aliens “borrowing” legitimate SSNs in order to “legally” file a return?
Russian bots?
Isn’t that the answer to everything?
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‘FILING EXTENSION’?
‘FILING EXTENSION’ is not a Paying Extension.
This also holds up the state returns as the Fed. return must be accepted before the state return transmits electronically.
same here lol. I dont really care about the refunds either as they can take it from the obamacare penalty, which i wont pay either.
Tried to file a 990-N for my music ministry this morning and ran into the same problem. Fortunately, I have another month. Of course, it IS the government...
I had to mail mine in for the first time in years yesterday. I kept getting rjected because by AGI didn’t match 2016, the only problem is it DID match.
Nothing like waiting until the last minute, eh?
It is also holding up about 25 extensions I filed today..
It BURNS, don't it..! I got MY pension..!!!!
Heh heh heh heh heh....!!!
You go back to your TEA BAGS, now..!!!
I was able to avoid the penalty because, at age 64, and a tobacco user (I smoke a cigar every few months), the bronze plan is quite expensive, allowing me to take the “unaffordable” exemption. :)
990-N for my music ministry this morning and ran into the same problem
Same here. That is when I first realized it was down...
Frustrating, as that site says it is down for update maintenance.... liars!
Oh, so THAT is why there were seventeen people in line at the post office today, when the missus asked me to drop off a couple of retuned items!
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