One More Day To Tax Day

Connecticut and Massachusetts residents have an extra day to get taxes in.

People who haven't filed their income tax  returns yet have one more day to get them done, and they can thank the  calendar and a local holiday for the break.  

The usual filing deadline  of April 15th fell on Saturday this year.  

That would have pushed the  deadline to today, but April 17th is the day Washington, DC is observing  Emancipation Day this year.  

It is also Patriots Day in Massachusetts.

The local holiday usually falls on April  16th, commemorating President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation  Proclamation, freeing enslaved people, on April 16th, 1862. 

But since  the 16th fell on Sunday, Washington, DC is celebrating Emancipation Day  today.  


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