The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced that the “tax season” for individual taxpayers will start January 24, 2022, at which time the IRS will begin accepting and processing individual income tax returns for 2021.1
As the usual filing deadline of April 15 falls on the Emancipation Day holiday in the District of Columbia, the filing deadline to submit 2021 tax returns is Monday, April 18, 2022, for most taxpayers (holidays in Washington, D.C., affect tax deadlines for taxpayers in the same way that federal holidays do). However, taxpayers who live in Maine or Massachusetts will have an extra day, until April 19, 2022, to file their returns because of the Patriots' Day holiday in those states.
Taxpayers who request an extension by the original filing deadline will have until Monday, October 17, 2022, to file their returns.