If TAXachusetts like taxes so much why do they get another day to pay?

[underpants]

Why wait TAXachussetts why not pay today???

:grr:



http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=167195,00.html
Individuals in the District of Columbia, as well as in six eastern states already had an April 17 filing date prior to this announcement because they are served by an IRS processing facility in Massachusetts, where Patriots Day will be observed on April 16. These individuals are still required to file on April 17.




Oooh "Patriot Day" well we got one too and we don't take an extra day to.. oh just kiss my ASS TAXachussetts!!

[MissMillie]

1. I think the post office is closed today

I could be wrong about that.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I don't think so... it's not a federal holiday

[Atman]

5. Patriots Day is a big holiday in Mass...everything is closed.

"Everything" being government offices and schools and such. And that means the Post Office, too. Anyone whose return is processed in Andover MA gets the extra day. Not sure why the whole country gets the extra day. In the past, as I recall, we'd get the extra day, but the rest of the country still had to file by the 15th.

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[gaspee]

13. Don't forget

The Boston Marathon is run today. That oughta be fun what with the trees down, the rivers overflowing and still getting 50 MPH wind gusts.

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. You're full of it - Just went to the bank and post office

Business as usual................

[bicentennial_baby]

12. I checked last night, open

Or so the internets tell me :hi:

[MADem]

20. It's the IRS processing center in ANDOVER MA that is closed.

They're the ones processing the returns.

See here: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=164052,00.html

[mainegreen]

2. It's nice to see you dont support the revolutionary troops.

:7

[underpants]

7. Well at least we FINALLY finished paying for the Spanish-American war!!

The phone tax "refund" or whatever they called it is in effect this year. You can declare according to your number of dependents (3 =$50).

The phone tax was initiated to pay for the Spanish-American war (we won) and generally is increased whenever we are "at war". Someone won a lawsuit to declare it and won.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. Actually, we still owe Spain $75, but they said to forget about it.

nt

[meegbear]

3. Later tax paying! Gay marriage!

We got it all baby!

[renie408]

6. I think I have a better question...

Why do you give a shit?

[matcom]

8. why do you hate the Declaration Of Independence?

commie :grr:

[nuxvomica]

9. As a New York taxpayer I celebrate Massachusetts' holiday

Sometimes you just need that extra day.

Which reminds of a piece of trivia: a letter with the following address was successfully delivered by the post office. Who received it?

WOOD
JOHN
MASS

[Clark2008]

15. OK - who got the letter?

John Kennedy?

[nuxvomica]

16. Highlight the text below to read the answer

John Underwood, Andover, Mass. :rofl:

[Clark2008]

17. Ha ha.

I get it now.

:)

Under wood and over Mass.

[underpants]

19. I knew it was something like that

I even googled it but didn't find anything

VERY FUNNY

[WilliamPitt]

10. 'Scuse me.

Massachusetts taxpayers aren't as heavily burdened as they used to be. The group said taxpayers here bear the 28th heaviest local and state tax burden as a percentage of income in America, 10.6 percent. The national average is 11 percent.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/NEWS/704160335/1018/OPINION

[underpants]

11. That's what we've been trying to TELL you

TAX a chussetts

[MADem]

22. Taxachusetts is damned nice to people on city or federal pensions or military retirees. That income

is tax free, here! The Taxachusetts label is a bit outdated, frankly.

[catgirl]

18. Who cares? I needed that extra day.

No garbage today, btw.

[sniffa]

21. hey, i'm maiLing it out today so shad up

and we have a hoLiday for freeing the country from the bLoody-backed rascaLs.

[rox63]

23. WTF is your problem?

Sounds like you've got too much time on your hands worrying about this irrelevant crap. :sarcasm:

[matcom]

24. you forgot your [sarcasm] tag

right? :eyes:

[rox63]

25. Edited to add sarcasm tag

But as a proud life-long Masshole, I do resent the attitude.

[aikoaiko]

27. It now April 17 for everyone. ;-)

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=167195,00.html

My IRS tax instructions say I should file by April 16, 2007. Is this correct?

This is not correct. At the time these instructions were approved for printing, IRS believed it was correct. Thus, any IRS form, instruction or publication that currently shows an “April 16, 2007” due date should now be read as “April 17, 2007.”