Breathe easy, tax procrastinators! You have one (1) more whole day to remember where you chucked your W2 and get your financial life in order.
Why? Well, the Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged a website outage has occurred on the worst of all possible days and is stifling specifically people attempting to pay taxes directly from their bank accounts, as well as those utilizing the online services of TurboTax and H&R Block. Many who attempted to navigate the IRS website Tuesday were greeted with a discouraging message.
That is a long outage!
In response to the freaking out masses — it’s been estimated that somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million people wait until the deadline day to file — the IRS initially released a message apologizing for the inconvenience but reminding folks that they still needed to send payment by midnight. Now, however, they’ve switched to full “our bad” mode and are granting latecomers a one day’s worth of leeway.
You’re welcome?
Read more at the New York Times or, really, anywhere.