Here are the dates you can begin filing your taxes for this year

According to the government’s announcement on Thursday, tax filing season will begin in January 23rd.

The Internal Revenue Service will accept tax returns from this date forward for the 2022 fiscal year. The IRS expects To receive 168,000,000 returns this year, approximately 4 million more than last.

This year’s filing deadline extends by three days to April 18. This is because April 15 falls on Saturday and Monday, April 17, in the District of Columbia, is Emancipation Day.

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The IRS is entering the filing season with a host of challenges, including a backlog of 10 million unprocessed returns — a smaller backlog than in years past, but still substantial.

To help beleaguered taxpayers, who last year were able to reach a telephone agent in only 1 of 10 calls, the agency has hired more than 5,000 new phone operators as well as in-person help staff, it said.