| Last-minute tax help
The Idaho State Tax Commission will extend the hours in several state offices - including one in Twin Falls at 1038 Blue Lakes Blvd. N., Suite C - to help taxpayers meet the income tax filing deadline.Taxpayers have until Tuesday to file their income taxes.The tax offices offer walk-in assistance for taxpayers needing tax forms and answers to questions about their Idaho tax returns. The offices also will accept completed Idaho tax returns and payments for Idaho taxes.Office hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. Phone hours - (800) 972-7660 - will be 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.Taxpayers may also download forms, make credit card and e-check payments and get information from the tax commission's Web site at tax.idaho.gov. .
Income tax filing deadline nears
ZANESVILLE - Have you done your taxes? Or are you one of the millions across the country who put off paying Uncle Sam and the Internal Revenue Service until the last minute? If you are in that group and are reading this, you still have two days - this year's filing deadline was pushed back to April 17 since April 15 fell on a Sunday - to scramble to a local tax preparation service, download tax programs or get to the post office to pick up paper copies of the tax forms. .
11:37 am: Wrong tax forms blamed on computer problem
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) _ The state has admitted sending erroneous tax forms to three people who ran for the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission last year and chose to use public financing for their campaigns.The Department of Finance and Administration had sent the forms, telling the candidates that it counted the public funding as income and they would have to pay taxes on the money.Stephanie DuBois, who ran unsuccessfully for the District 2 seat, was flabbergasted. She tried to contact state officials, but she kept getting conflicting information.After a series of queries to several state agencies and Gov. Bill Richardson's office, the state conceded Friday afternoon that it made a mistake. .
Taking stock of our tax dilemma
It's good that this year's tax deadline has been extended to Tuesday. I'm only three or four words from setting the American record for Most Obscenities Yelled At One Tax Form. There's still time. We'll get there. Most years our taxes are easy. Somebody sends us all the records, and I type the numbers into TurboTax, and little hamsters inside the computer figure up our refund. This year it's different. I would like to pass along the financial advice I have learned this year in the form of tax tips. Tax Tip 1: Never buy stock. Tax Tip 2: If you ever do buy stock, for the love of all that is holy, NEVER sell that stock. (Editors' note: It is possible that this is not necessarily good financial advice. Please do not sue us.) Last year we sold a few shares of stock my wife bought years ago.
Last-minute filers have 2 extra days to beat deadline
If you're burning the midnight oil Tuesday doing your taxes, you're too late. This year, there are no special post office late hours or 11th-hour opportunities to get your federal and state tax forms in. But there are two extra days, this being one of them. April 15, the due date for your governmental dues, often falls on a weekend, and Monday is a holiday in Washington, D.C., Emancipation Day. So you get Tuesday to finish up, and many post offices are open until 7 p.m. with windows and clerks to stamp your returns with a postmark the Internal Revenue Service will respect. The printed forms from IRS say April 16, but that's out of date. "IRS didn't learn about the holiday until after the tax forms were printed," according to the Kiplinger Tax Letter. E-filing, growing in popularity every year, is a speedy way to file.
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