Why Is The 2012 Tax Deadline April 17th?
Taxpayers now have until Tuesday, April 17, to file their 2011 tax returns and pay any tax due because April 15 fell on a Sunday, and Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in the District of Columbia, falls this year on Monday, April 16. According to federal law, District of Columbia holidays impact tax deadlines in the same way that federal holidays do; therefore, all taxpayers will have two extra