You’re Not Alone: President Trump Has Filed For His Own Tax Extension

What failed was the part of the IRS network that allows taxpayers to pay their taxes electronically.

The problems just added to frustration for many Americans in their most personal interaction with the government. TAX DAY TIPS: How to file an extension and moreH&R Block said it’s handling its clients’ returns differently.

“While New Jersey did not experience any system issues, our goal is to ease any confusion and aid taxpayers who may be dealing with additional burdens caused by delays at the federal level”, state Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio said in a statement. He later apologized for the situation.

Kautter didn’t rule out hacking as the source of the outage, but said it was more likely that it was “something internal”, like hardware or software problems.

One official told The Washington Post that the IRS is going to try a “hard reboot” of the system. But as a result, the IRS says taxpayers now have until midnight on Wednesday, April 18th, to file and pay.

The agency expects that the volume of users trying to beat today’s deadline may be what caused multiple systems to crash.

Former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen warned previous year of a possible system failure, partly because of underfunding of the agency.

The IRS website where people can pay their taxes and access other key services has been down for most the day, frustrating last-minute tax filers.

Intuit said that despite the outage, it continued to process tax returns for its customers. “You really are rolling the dice when you operate that way”. Sounds likely: The IRS uses 60 different computer systems to handle taxes and two of those systems are reportedly 60 years old. Ouch! The automatic extension form is easy to file and it’s well worth taking a few minutes to do it if there’s even a chance that you owe taxes this year.

“President Trump was able to fix a broken tax system”, Mnuchin said during the New Hampshire event on Tuesday afternoon. The IRS is looking into the issue and will provide updates as soon as possible.