Government shutdown or not, the tax filing extension deadline is Oct. 15. Hard stop.

The federal government may be shut down, but your tax obligations remain. While April 15 was the official deadline for filing a 2024 tax return and paying the bulk of one’s estimated bill, Americans can receive an automatic six-month extension — which pushes the filing due date to Oct. 15 for millions of taxpayers. That deadline is hitting as the Internal Revenue Service is without nearly half of its workforce. But fear not — there’s a mechanism to take your money and filing. Because filing is so automa ...