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AN EXTRA DAY OF BONDAGE IS A FUNNY WAY TO CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION

January 24, 2007

An email release purportedly from the IRS is making the rounds saying that tax season will last until April 17 this year. It has been slated to end on April 16 because April 15 is a Sunday. The release says that taxpayers nationwide will have until April 17 to file because April 16 is a holiday (Emancipation Day) in the District of Columbia.

There's no confirmation yet on the IRS web site. It seems just awful enough to be true, but I'm not yet convinced.

Emancipation Day commemorates Abraham Lincoln signing the bill outlawing slavery in the District of Columbia in 1962. How strange that it would extend the filing season bondage of tax preparers 145 years later.

UPDATE: It's true. Yuck.

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