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Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017 by rodionos on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:54PM (#14168283)
Tax day in 2016 was also April 18th.
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Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017 by gozur88 on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:01PM (#14168350)
I'm wondering if it had something to do with Easter. There might be a lot of people who were tied up with family stuff and figured they could start on Monday. Last year Easter was in March.
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Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017 by differentView on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:08PM (#14168415)
Why not use stats from April 18th then?
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Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017 by rodionos on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:16PM (#14168482)
Cause IRS devops isn't there yet. They (collect?) release metrics on Fridays.
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Re:US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017 by popey456963 on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:50PM (#14168858)
It is Friday? Roughly 4PM on Friday, which means they'll likely be closing down shortly. Seems odd for them to do it as such a last minute thing.
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