The residents of the formerly Golden State have been clobbered by so many major events that IRS has officially given them until October 16, 2023 to file their 2022 tax returns.
This also applies to tax filers in parts of Georgia and Alabama, who had their own miseries befall them.
The IRS Press Release:
May 15 tax deadline extended to Oct. 16 for disaster area taxpayers in California, Alabama and Georgia
Unlike the normal type of six month extension from April until October, this special change also allows tax payments to be postponed until 10/16/23 without any of the late penalties that would apply to tax due under a normally extended 10/16 filing.
Since this IRS pronouncement is so new, the California Franchise Tax Board hasn’t yet had a chance to issue its own press release regarding this new filing deadline for 2021 returns; but there’s no reason to suspect that they won’t conform to the IRS time schedule as they did in January.
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