Taxpayers can begin submitting their 2024 tax returns beginning this week, with those affected by disasters potentially having more time to file, according to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The IRS “opened the 2025 tax filing season today and is accepting and processing federal individual tax year 2024 returns,” said a Jan. 27 statement from the agency.
In the early morning on Monday, the IRS received “millions of tax returns from across the nation for processing.”
“The IRS expects more than 140 million individual tax returns for tax year 2024 to be filed ahead of the Tuesday, April 15 federal deadline,” the agency stated.
“Taxpayers residing in a federally declared disaster area may have additional time to file and pay federal taxes,” the agency said. For instance, the IRS extended various tax filing deadlines between Jan. 7 and Oct. 15 for victims of California wildfires to Oct. 15. This includes the April 15 deadline for filing tax year 2024 returns….