Filing Deadline Extended in 2016

Next year, taxpayers will get a few extra days to file their 2015 income tax returns. The District of Columbia will be observing Emancipation Day on April 15, 2016, the usual filing deadline. Because April 16 and 17 fall on a weekend, the 2016 filing deadline is moved to the next business day which is April 18. Taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts will have until April 19, 2016, to file because these two states observe Patriot’s Day on Monday, April 18.