The IRS just pushed back the deadline to file taxes by one day after its website crashed on Tax Day

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April 18, 2018 12:21 AM

The Tax Day deadline will be pushed back until Wednesday, the IRS said, after a technical glitch caused problems for some taxpayers.

The Internal Revenue Service said the Tax Day deadline for Americans to submit tax filings will be pushed back to Wednesday after a technical glitch hit the agency on Tuesday.
The IRS said that people could still file their taxes to services like TurboTax and H&R Block, but the agency was having trouble transmitting filings from those services.

The Internal Revenue Service is moving back Tax Day by one day after technical difficulties crippled parts of the online filing system Tuesday.

An outage to some of the IRS' eFile systems and its Direct Pay function, which allows taxpayers to make payments directly from a bank account, caused the agency to delay the deadline until the end of Wednesday.

"This is the busiest tax day of the year, and the IRS apologizes for the inconvenience this system issue caused for taxpayers," Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter said in a statement. "The IRS appreciates everyone’s patience during this period. The extra time will help taxpayers affected by this situation."

The IRS statement said all issues with the online filing system were resolved. Around 5 million tax filers waited until the final day to submit their taxes in 2017 according to the IRS.

The decision came after Kautter drew the ire of Republicans during a hearing earlier on Tuesday after telling the lawmakers that an issue had popped up that morning.

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