Mainers (and many in Northeast) given three extra days to file taxes

[MaineDem]

Love that Patriot's Day holiday!

PORTLAND, Maine — Taxpayers in Maine will have three extra days to file their federal and state income tax returns this year.

The Internal Revenue Service has pushed back the deadline for federal tax returns to April 18 for people in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

The deadline was pushed back because April 15 falls on a Saturday and April 17 is Patriots Day, a state holiday in Massachusetts and Maine. Because of the holiday, the IRS service center in Andover, Mass., where the tax returns from the six states are processed, will be closed on April 17.

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8EUKDVO4-4.shtml

[SkiGuy]

1. RI too?

I file mine to Andover as well.

[skids]

2. What, no Patriot's Day in Texas?!?!?!?!?!

Why do they hate America?

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. Patriots' Day...

...was originally on 19 April, the day of the battles of Lexington and Concord.

At that time, Texas was part of Spanish Mexico.

I'm sure they have their own holiday either from the time of Mexican independence from Spain, or Tejan independence from Mexico...

[Warren Stupidity]

4. They would have to remind themselves every year

that the folks who founded this country were a bunch of long haired eastern liberals, educated folks who rejected organized religion, were proponents of enlightened rationalism, and that quite a few of them were from the dreaded state of Massachusetts.