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Returns are due by midnight
Taxpayers who wait until last minute got two extra days
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Harry Trunk, 88, is hoping his tax preparer will get his 2006 income tax return filed soon.
"I know the deadline is coming up fast," said Trunk as he stood outside the Camarillo Post Office on Monday morning.
In fact, taxpayers have until midnight tonight to file their returns. This year's deadline was extended by 48 hours because the traditional April 15 deadline fell on a Sunday and Monday was Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C., a public holiday that commemorates Abraham Lincoln's freeing of slaves there in 1862.
Trunk, a retired pharmacist, expects to get some money back this year, though not much.
"Whatever I do get back I'll probably spend on my dog," he said, pointing to the small canine in the front seat of his car.
Ron Sheldon, 43, also had not yet filed his taxes on Monday morning.
"I always wait to the last minute because I owe the government money," said Sheldon as he walked into the Camarillo Post Office to mail his 2006 returns.
Mailing tax returns actually is becoming rarer and rarer in this age of the Internet, said Lauren Rosson, a tax preparer for Liberty Tax Service in Oxnard.
Photos by Joseph A. Garcia / Star staff Kenny Bailey of Port Hueneme, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, reminds motorists to get their taxes done Monday on Channel Islands Boulevard on behalf of Liberty Tax Service in Oxnard.
"All of the returns we file are done over the Internet," she said Monday afternoon.
In fact, Rosson said, tax-preparation businesses such as Liberty are required to file clients' returns electronically. "It's really a lot more efficient, because we file so many returns," she said.
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More from County NewsRosson said her clients prefer to have their returns e-filed, "Especially those who are owed money they'll get it a lot faster this way."
Rosson said her Saviers Road office was surprisingly quiet Monday. She said many clients showed up Sunday thinking they had to file that day, then left after learning they had until midnight today, promising to return later.
"I expect a lot of them will either come back this afternoon or on Tuesday," she said Monday.
Posted by twoods on April 17, 2007 at 9:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Thanks for the reminder!!!!
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