Update 7:20 p.m. Monday: The deadline to file and pay both federal and state taxes for almost all California counties has now been pushed back by a month, to Nov. 16 2023.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier Monday issued this additional extension to the deadline for most Californians to file and pay their federal taxes. “As a result, most individuals and businesses in California will now have until Nov. 16 to file their 2022 returns and pay any tax due,” said the IRS statement — giving people in every county but Lassen, Modoc and Shasta counties an extra month to handle their federal taxes.
On Monday evening, with just hours to go until the original Oct. 16 deadline, the State of California Franchise Tax Board confirmed that the deadline to file and pay state taxes would also be extended to Nov. 16. So if you haven’t yet filed and paid your taxes, you don’t need to do anything to get these extensions, which are owing to the severe winter storms that hit the state earlier in the year.
Original story: If you live or own a business in the Bay Area, your deadline to file and pay both federal and state taxes was extended earlier this year, to Monday, Oct. 16.
Which now means that this new, extended deadline is right around the corner. And if you were one of many Californians who took advantage of the automatic extension for most counties in the state, you need to prepare your taxes ASAP.
Keep reading for what you need to know about the extension, who’s eligible, and about filing your taxes before the deadline.
Remind me: Why did the Bay Area get this tax deadline extension?
For most Americans, Tax Day this year still fell on April 18. But earlier this year, both federal and state tax deadlines were extended for the majority of California counties, including all nine Bay Area counties — because of the severe winter storms that hit the state from late December to early January.
The only California counties that didn’t get that extension are Lassen, Modoc and Shasta. And because the extension was granted automatically to everyone in the affected areas, there was no application to fill out: The IRS and the state of California knew where you lived or owned a business during the tax year, so they used that information to extend this relief to you.