Did you hear? The U.S. tax filing deadline has been extended an extra day to Tuesday, April 17th. Why? Because the District of Columbia declared Monday, April 16th, a holiday. The Monday to which the deadline has already been extended because the real April 15th deadline falls on a weekend.
Now before you ask what the bejeebus D.C.'s holiday has to do with the rest of the country, I will tell you: "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."
Does D.C. realize its decision to commemorate Abraham Lincoln signing a bill outlawing slavery in D.C. in 1962 forces accountants across the nation to spend an extra day slaving at their desk for the tax man? Does D.C. care?
You think this is good news because now you have an extra day to file your taxes, don't you? DON'T YOU?
(Via Roth&Co)
Tags: taxes, tax filing deadline, tax season
Wow! It took an extra day tacked on to the tax season for you to realize that Satan lives in D.C.?
You really DO avoid news about politics, don't you?
Posted by: JCW | January 25, 2007 at 07:38 PM
Now I have concrete proof! Before it was just suspicions and news stories about sex and corruption. Since nobody ever did anything to the people featured in those stories, they must not have been true. I mean, because the world IS fair, right?
Posted by: GetSheila | January 25, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Hello, my name is Satan W. Bush.
I'm here to tell you that the State of the Union is FINE, just FINE.
I'm going to send 20,000 of your children over to Iraq to try and salvage my misguided war, but you won't mind, 'cause I'm not gonna raise taxes! That's right, I'm not gonna raise taxes!
Oh...and Sheila...I'm keeping my eye on YOU. You 'lil tax pony, you! Giddyup!
Posted by: G. Bush | January 27, 2007 at 01:07 AM