2024 Tax-Filing Season to Begin on Jan. 29: IRS

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reminded taxpayers that the 2024 tax-filing season is due to begin by the end of this month and asked them to “take steps now” to file returns on time.

Jan. 29 will be the official start date of the 2024 tax season when the agency will start accepting and processing returns for the 2023 tax year, the IRS said in a Jan. 8 press release. The agency is expecting over 128.7 million individual tax returns to be filed by the tax deadline of April 15. For residents in Maine and Massachusetts, the deadline will be on April 17 due to Patriot’s Day and Emancipation Day holidays. Deadlines may also be extended in case a taxpayer is living in a federally declared disaster area.

“Although the IRS will not officially begin accepting and processing tax returns until Jan. 29, people do not need to wait until then to work on their taxes if they’re using software companies or tax professionals.” For instance, many software firms accept tax return submissions and hold them until IRS processing begins.

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