Tax Day 2024 and How to Get an Extension from the IRS

When are taxes due in 2024?

This year, for most American taxpayers Tax Day is Monday April 15, 2024. Residents of Massachusetts and Maine have until April 17, 2024 to file their taxes, in observance of state holidays.

If you missed filing taxes by Tax Day on April 15, make sure you know what to do next!

Need more time to file? Get an extension until Tuesday October 15.

Everyone who asks gets a free automatic deadline extension, but you need to submit some paperwork first. The easiest way is to submit the request to the IRS through their electronic form by April 15 to avoid penalty fees. Electronically filing this form will pause the penalty fees accruing on your account and extend your tax filing due date to October 15, 2023. 

Even if your earned more than $79,000 last year, you can still use the Free Guided Tax Preparation to submit for the deadline extension electronically.

Alternatively you can fill out Form 4868 and mail it in.

If you owe taxes you'll be accruing fees, even with the extension.

If you might owe federal taxes try to not delay any longer. After Monday April 15, 2024 interest with start accruing towards unpaid taxes. The deadline extension only pauses the penalty fees, not interest on taxes owed.

The sooner you file your taxes and pay what's due, including the fees and interest, the less you will have to pay if you keep waiting!

Calculate your Federal Income Tax.

Use the free PaycheckCity Salary and Hourly calculators to find how much federal, state, and local taxes you owe per paycheck.