Released: April 19, 2007

Northeastern taxpayers get week’s filing break

Source: Associated Press [New York Times] (Free Registration)

Taxpayers in the Northeast swamped by a powerful storm just before the filing deadline can delay filing their federal returns for another week, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Mark W. Everson, said Wednesday.

Filers in New York and elsewhere in the Northeast were originally given a two-day extension, but they will now have until April 26 to file their federal tax returns, Mr. Everson announced at a Senate Finance Committee hearing.

The extension came at the request of Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who said many of his constituents were still dealing with the aftermath of the April 16 storm.

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