Tax Filing Season Starts Jan. 23: IRS
April 18 will be the filing deadline to submit 2022 tax returns for most taxpayers.
The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that it will begin accepting and processing 2022 tax returns on Jan. 23, and that April 18 will be the filing deadline to submit 2022 tax returns for most taxpayers.
By law, the IRS said, Washington, D.C., holidays affect tax deadlines for everyone in the same way as federal holidays. The due date is April 18, instead of April 15, because of the weekend and the District of Columbia’s Emancipation Day holiday, which falls on April 17, the IRS stated.
Taxpayers requesting an extension will have until Oct. 16, 2023, to file.
More than 168 million individual tax returns are expected to be filed, according to the IRS, “with the vast majority of those coming before the April 18 tax deadline.”
IRS Free File will open Jan. 13. The IRS‘s Free File program, available only at IRS.gov, allows taxpayers who made $73,000 or less in 2022 to file their taxes electronically for free using brand-name software provided by commercial tax filing companies, the agency explained.
IRS said that it has taken additional steps for 2023 to improve taxpayer services.
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has hired more than 5,000 new telephone assistors and added more in-person staff to help support taxpayers.
“This filing season is the first to benefit the IRS and our nation’s tax system from multi-year funding in the Inflation Reduction Act,” said Acting IRS Commissioner Doug O’Donnell in a statement. “With these new additional resources, taxpayers and tax professionals will see improvements in many areas of the agency this year. We’ve trained thousands of new employees to answer phones and help people. While much work remains after several difficult years, we expect people to experience improvements this tax season.”