The Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday that the agency will begin accepting 2022 tax returns on Jan. 23 and that April 18 is the deadline to file taxes.
In a news release, the agency said it expects that 168 million individual tax returns will be filed this year, and the “vast majority” will be filed before the April 18 deadline. “People have three extra days to file this year due to the calendar,” it said, adding that people requesting an extension will have until Oct. 16 to file.
The agency used the news release to tout last year’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Republicans say would allow for the hiring of 87,000 new IRS personnel—although Democrats say that such hiring initiatives are needed to deal with IRS backlogs. House GOP lawmakers this week proposed a bill to rescind that funding….