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Byline: Neil Downing
Apr. 17--TAX DEADLINE EXTENDED: Good news for last-minute filers: The Internal Revenue Service has extended by two days the deadline for filing federal income-tax returns.
The deadline had been midnight tonight.
The new deadline is now midnight on Thursday.
The IRS changed the deadline because of power outages and other problems caused by the massive rain-and-wind storm that has swept through the Northeast in recent days.
In a statement issued last night from Washington, IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said, "Because this unusually forceful storm hit within 24 hours of the filing deadline, we are giving affected taxpayers 48 additional hours."
The IRS had received a number of inquiries from tax preparers and taxpayers who had lost power or who were otherwise affected by the storm, IRS spokeswoman Peggy Riley said in a telephone interview last night.
Some people called to say that, because they had lost power, they were unable to file electronically, Riley said.
As a result, the IRS said in a statement last night that "victims of the major storm affecting several Northeastern states on Monday, April 16, will have two additional days to file their tax returns beyond the April 17 tax deadline."
This includes taxpayers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, Riley said. (The new…
Source: HighBeam Research, The Providence Journal, R.I., MoneyLine column.