Tax Deadline??
Apr. 14th, 2023 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've seen a lot of articles in my news feed recently with breathless headlines about taxes. "TAXES ARE ALMOST DUE BUT IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO SAVE!!1!1!" screams a typical headline. (Okay, typically they don't mix exclamation marks and ones. 🤣)
At first I was like, "LOLWUT, taxes? A tax deadline?" Then I was like, "Oh, right, the tax deadline." US tax filings are due April 18. I'd forgotten about that— because I completed mine a month and a half ago. For 7 weeks now I've switching to thinking about 2023 taxes. Y'know, the ones that aren't due for... checks date... approximately 12 months. 😇
It's interesting that if I still needed to file, my filing deadline has been pushed to Oct 16. Mine, along with almost everyone in California! Parts of California that were affected by weather related disasters the past few months, such as flooding that knocked out roads and bridges in neighboring counties were granted a 6 month filing extension. The thing is, after a whopping 17 atmospheric rivers— though I think now the count is, like, 20— nearly all of California's 58 counties have been declared disaster areas.
Understand, BTW, that doesn't mean "most of California is a disaster." It means small disasters have struck in many places around the state. In my county of Santa Clara, for example, flooding problems impacted a few thousand people. Disaster declarations are made at the county level, though. That's kind of a thing based on political districting in eastern and midwestern states where many counties only have, like, 10,000 residents. Here in Santa Clara County all 2 million of us get the "Disaster Area" label. And so it is with most of the state. 🙄
At first I was like, "LOLWUT, taxes? A tax deadline?" Then I was like, "Oh, right, the tax deadline." US tax filings are due April 18. I'd forgotten about that— because I completed mine a month and a half ago. For 7 weeks now I've switching to thinking about 2023 taxes. Y'know, the ones that aren't due for... checks date... approximately 12 months. 😇
It's interesting that if I still needed to file, my filing deadline has been pushed to Oct 16. Mine, along with almost everyone in California! Parts of California that were affected by weather related disasters the past few months, such as flooding that knocked out roads and bridges in neighboring counties were granted a 6 month filing extension. The thing is, after a whopping 17 atmospheric rivers— though I think now the count is, like, 20— nearly all of California's 58 counties have been declared disaster areas.
Understand, BTW, that doesn't mean "most of California is a disaster." It means small disasters have struck in many places around the state. In my county of Santa Clara, for example, flooding problems impacted a few thousand people. Disaster declarations are made at the county level, though. That's kind of a thing based on political districting in eastern and midwestern states where many counties only have, like, 10,000 residents. Here in Santa Clara County all 2 million of us get the "Disaster Area" label. And so it is with most of the state. 🙄
