The United States’
citizens and resident aliens who live and work outside the U.S. and Puerto Rico
have until June 15, 2017, to file their 2016 returns and pay any taxes due.
The special June 15
deadline also applies to members of the military, on duty outside the U.S. and
Puerto Rico, who do not qualify for the longer combat zone extension.
A statement from the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) urged taxpayers to “be sure to attach a statement to the
return explaining which of these situations applies”.
Though taxpayers abroad
get more time to pay, interest, currently at the rate of four percent per year,
compounded daily, applies to any payment received after April 18.
Taxpayers in
Presidentially-declared disaster areas, members of the military serving in a
combat zone and Americans living and working abroad get extra time to both file
their returns and pay any taxes due.
The IRS generally
provides relief, including postponing filing and payment deadlines, to any area
covered by a disaster declaration for individual assistance issued by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Among other things, this
relief includes extensions for relief workers, disaster area businesses and
anyone whose tax records are located in the disaster area
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