2016 Income Tax Deadline: When Is Last Day to File?

By DEB BELT

Patch Staff

Procrastinators – and who isn’t when it comes to filing their income taxes? – are in luck this year.

You have an extra weekend to buckle down, compile and submit your tax returns.

Because of a holiday in the nation’s capital, the filing deadline to submit 2015 tax returns is Monday, April 18, 2016, rather than the traditional April 15 date.

The Internal Revenue Service says that Washington, D.C., will celebrate Emancipation Day on Friday, April 15. That, in turn, pushes the federal tax deadline to the following Monday for most of the nation.