{"id":1137,"date":"2013-01-08T20:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/irs-delays-start-tax-filing-season-january-30"},"modified":"2025-02-11T02:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:34:05","slug":"irs-delays-start-tax-filing-season-january-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/irs-delays-start-tax-filing-season-january-30\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS delays start of tax filing season to January 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service said on Tuesday it will begin accepting 2012 tax filings on January 30, eight days later than originally planned due to last-minute changes to tax law made in Congress&#39; legislation to avoid the &#39;fiscal cliff&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This date ensures we have the time we need to update and test our processing systems,&quot; said IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Legislation enacted on January 2, after months of debate on Capitol Hill, raised the ordinary income tax rate on household incomes over $450,000 and extended a number of individual and business tax breaks. The IRS could not fully prepare for the upcoming tax season until it knew what was in the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>More than 120 million households should be able to start filing tax returns on January 30.<\/p>\n<p>Some households, such as those claiming residential energy credits or making certain other claims, will not be able to file until late February or early March, IRS said.<\/p>\n<p>&copy; Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service said on Tuesday it will begin accepting 2012 tax filings on January 30, eight days later than originally planned due to last-minute changes to tax law made in Congress&#39; legislation to avoid the &#39;fiscal cliff&#39;. &quot;This date ensures we have the time we need to update and test our processing systems,&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tax-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11287,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/11287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}