NPR Interview

On Tuesday, April 17, we received a call from National Public Radio in Washington DC, asking if I would be willing to be interviewed on the subject of filing tax returns late. Having just finished preparing almost 100 extensions, and being a long time advocate of filing tax returns later than April 15, I thought that would be the subject.

When I actually did the interview later that day with Megan Williams, a producer of the Morning Edition show, it turned out she wanted to discuss how to avoid late filing & payment penalties. IRS representatives had told her that they could be waived for reasonable cause, but they had no examples of what those reasonable causes could be. I gave her several examples of excuses that had worked for my clients in the past.

Not being a morning person, I wasn’t about to listen to the show during its 5 am to 9 am broadcast. Luckily, I found it on the NPR website. They have a nice website, where you can listen to entire shows, or just parts. You can find my interview, in RealPlayer format here. They did a very nice job of editing a much longer discussion into small soundbites. If you don’t have RealPlayer, I have posted an MP3 version of this two minute piece on my website here.

KMK