From my Tax Software:

"IRS Processing Times
The IRS is experiencing issues and we are unable to send returns or retrieve acknowledgements at this time."

Damn those Russians!!

You're just now filing your return?

that's hilarious

Do people really wait until today to file their tax returns?

Well, it's like my sister likes to say, "if it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done. "

Glad I filed my extension yesterday.

Tony.

In my younger days, I was guilty of usually waiting till the last minute. Most of the time I found I needed forms I did not have. That caused a ridiculous fire drill in those pre-internet days.

At least I had all my documents, including the previous year's tax forms, so I knew about what I would owe. Thank heaven it is easy to file for an extension till August, but that only gave another deadline to run up against! Finally that got really old and I wised up. Now my taxes are done and filed in February.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Do people really wait until today to file their tax returns?

Well, it's like my sister likes to say, "if it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done. "

Uh, that's today?

When you owe you wait until the last minute.

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Originally posted by PD:
When you owe you wait until the last minute.

I e-filed in March (later than normal). Dropped my check(s) in the mail this morning.

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Originally posted by PD:
When you owe you wait until the last minute.

You can file your taxes any time before tax day and still wait until today to send a check. That's always how I play it.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Do people really wait until today to file their tax returns?

Well, it's like my sister likes to say, "if it weren't for the last minute, I'd never get anything done. "

When I was low man on the totem pole at the first CPA firm I worked for, I had to drive downtown at 8:00pm to mail the final returns we had finished that day. The road in front of the post office would be 5 one way lanes with postal workers with large bags collecting the mail as cars drove past.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by PD:
When you owe you wait until the last minute.

You can file your taxes any time before tax day and still wait until today to send a check. That's always how I play it.

I’m putting my returns in the mail today along with my checks. Between state and fed, it’s about $800. Just the way I like it. I have no intention of giving those bastards a penny of my money before I’m required to.

-Rob

Hey, if it wasn’t good enough, it wouldn’t be good enough. It’s a pass / fail kinda thing.

Or bask in the self adulation of having your taxes done early. Whatever that might be worth...

Personally it’s been a busy year and I just finished mine last week.

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You're just now filing your return?

I file over 150 Tax Returns & have extended 48 or 1/3rd of my clients. This is normal. File early, no one should ever file before mid feb. This year congress made major changes in the tax law on Feb 9 & IRS did not make the changes until Feb 23. If you filed early & had a dependent in College or had mortgage insurance, you likely missed out on substantial $.

It may be a matter of routine with you, but it damn sure ain't what I'd call normal.

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Originally posted by Anush:

I file over 150 Tax Returns & have extended 48 or 1/3rd of my clients. This is normal.

Which one is it? Oh, you're not a lawyer in Colorado....

Procrastination and reluctance to write a five-figure check aren't the only reasons one might not be able to file before mid-April. I am both of the above, but I usually start working on my taxes before the end of the tax year, organizing documentation, etc. It is just that it takes so much damn time. I worked all day Saturday and Sunday getting records together, printing reports from my accounting program, and tracking spreadsheets, deciding where I wanted to take various deductions, etc. A lot of this is because I am a proprietorship, and file a Schedule C. It can be a lot of back and forth because where you take a deduction (e.g. should real estate taxes go all on Sched. B or as part of a home office expense), affects other things, like how big a SEP-IRA contribution you can make. This year, for as long as I can remember, I was better off taking a standard deduction taher than itemizing, not that that means you didn't have to do the due diligence on itemization, just that the work was for naught.

So bottom line, I've been working on my taxes since December, not every weekend, but many of them, and I still do not get around to filing until the day before the drop dead date. The Post Office was not overly busy yesterday afternoon, but my broker had a line out the door of people making IRA and 401K contributions. IRS rules say they cannot accept ACH transfers for retirement accounts so it is deliver a check, and by hand to get a time-stamped receipt if you're close to the deadline. Boy do I hate tax season!

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Originally posted by Anush:
From my Tax Software:

"IRS Processing Times
The IRS is experiencing issues and we are unable to send returns or retrieve acknowledgements at this time."

I understand your tax software is telling you there's a problem, but did you do any further checking to see if IRS systems are really down?

I'm not trying to be an ass about it. I will be filing today and would like to have some idea if this is a momentary glitch, or a major outage.