UPDATE: The IRS is giving the public an extra day to file their taxes following the IT issues. The online payment systems have all been restored.
“Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight on Wednesday, April 18. Taxpayers do not need to do anything to receive this extra time,” the government agency said in a statement.
Original story:
Paying your taxes is never pleasant, but it just got worse for some with an overloaded IRS website unable to handle the influx of procrastinators.
The Internal Revenue Service’s “direct pay”