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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Denton Record-Chronicle
Deadline for filing tax returns not until Tuesday
payers have yet to file their re-
turns. Taxpayers can request an
automatic six-month extension.
But there is no extension for
paying your tax bill. If you owe
additional taxes, they are still
due Tuesday.
“With the tax deadline ap-
proaching, taxpayers shouldn’t
panic. The IRS has many op-
tions available to help people as
they finalize their tax returns or
if they need to get extra time to
file,” said IRS Commissioner
John Koskinen.
As last-minute filers rush to
finish their taxes, their chances
of getting audited have rarely
been lower.
The number of people audit-
ed by the IRS in 2016 dropped
for the sixth straight year, to j ust
over 1 million. The last time so
few people were audited was
2004. Since then, the U.S. has
added about 30 million people.
which 3,100 slaves living in
Washington were freed.
All the states that usually
have an April 15 deadline have
delayed their filing date as well.
A handful of states have later
deadlines. The IRS has already
processed 101 million individual
returns and has issued $229 bil-
lion in refunds. The average re-
fund is $2,851.
The tax agency said Thurs-
day that nearly 40 million tax-
The IRS blames budget cuts
as money for the agency shrank
from $12.2 billion in 2010 to
$11.2 billion last year. Over that
period, the agency has lost more
than 17,000 employees, includ-
ing nearly 7,000 enforcement
agents. About 80,000 people
work at the IRS.
In 2016, the number of peo-
ple audited by the IRS dropped
by 16 percent from the year be-
fore. Just 0.7 percent of indivi-
duals were audited, either in
person or by mail. That’s the
lowest audit rate since 2003.
The higher your income, the
more likely you are to be audit-
ed. The IRS audited 1.7 percent
of returns that reported more
than $200,000 in income.
Agents audited 5.8 percent of re-
turns that reported more than $1
million in income.
Both audit rates were steep
declines from the year before.
By Stephen Ohlemacher
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -
procrastinators: Don’t freak out
if you haven’t finished your tax-
es. The IRS is giving you a re-
prieve until Tuesday.
The usual April 15 deadline
falls on Saturday this year. That
normally would push the dead-
line to Monday. However, Mon-
day is a holiday in the District of
Columbia, so by law, the filing
deadline is extended to Tuesday.
Monday is Emancipation
Day in the District of Columbia.
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WASHINGTON
White House said Friday that it
will not release logs of visitors to
the White House, breaking with
the practice of President Donald
Trump’s predecessor.
The decision will outrage
open-government groups, and
possibly spark fresh litigation to
try to force the Trump adminis-
tration to release the information.
They see the logs as an important
tool for monitoring which indivi-
duals or groups may be hying to
influence government policy.
Trump has been widely crit-
icized for a lack of openness for
refusing to release his tax re-
turns, breaking with decades of
precedent.
Senior White House officials
cited privacy and national secu-
rity concerns for the decision not
to release the visitor logs. They
argued that the decision is in line
with what previous administra-
tions have done, except for Pres-
ident Barack Obama’s, and that
continuing Obama’s practice of
releasing the records could in-
terfere with policy development.
White House communica-
tions director Michael Dubke said
Trump has already taken steps to
improve the ethical climate in
Washington, such as imposing
new restrictions on lobbying by
departing White House officials
and opening the White House
press briefing room to outlets that
previously didn’t have access.
He said the “Trump adminis-
tration has broken new ground
in ensuring our government is
both ethical and accessible to
the American people.”
After some litigation, the
Obama White House began re-
leasing the visitor records late in
2009, Obama’s first year in of-
fice. White House lawyers also
deleted names for national secu-
rity and other reasons before the
logs wore made public, meaning
the records provided an incom-
plete picture of exactly who en-
tered and left the gates of 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.
As incomplete as the Obama
documents wore, his adminis-
tration ultimately released near-
ly 6 million records.
In contrast, the Trump ad-
ministration’s decision to end
the practice means that no re-
cords documenting any White
House comings and goings will
be released on a routine basis
wffile he is in office, though the
officials said some information
could be released case by case.
Howover, visitor logs for
White House agencies, such as
the Office of Management and
Budget and the U.S. Trade Repre-
sentative, may be released under
the Freedom of Information Act.
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