Taxpayers get one-day reprieve after IRS site crashes
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FOXBusiness - The Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday that its April 17 deadline for filing taxes was moved to the next day after many Americans rushing to submit their returns electronically encountered glitches.
Earlier on Tuesday, a link to the IRS direct pay page was down, which could prevent individuals from paying their taxes before the deadline. The IRS announced that the April 17 deadline was moved to April 18 as a result.
The agency insisted filers should continue to proceed as usual while the issue was ironed out. The system was back online by late Tuesday.
"The IRS encountered system issues Tuesday morning. Throughout the system outage, taxpayers were still able to file their tax returns electronically through their software providers and Free File," the IRS said in a statement.
The glitch is the result of a problem between the website and software companies, Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter said, as reported by Politico.
The agency was planning a “hard reboot” of its systems, a congressional official told The Washington Post.