The IRS issued a press release IR-2021-43 declaring that victims of this month’s winter storms in Texas will have until June 15, 2021 to file various individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. The IRS announcement says “The tax relief postpones various tax filing and payment deadlines that occurred starting on February 11. As a result, affected individuals and businesses will have until June 15, 2021, to file returns and pay any taxes that were originally due during this period. This includes 2020 individual and business returns normally due on April 15, as well as various 2020 business returns due on March 15. Among other things, this also means that affected taxpayers will have until June 15 to make 2020 IRA contributions.”
BE CAREFUL! Not all tax return due dates or payments are postponed. Not all of Texas is covered. And remember this is a news release. The official Notice or Ruling has not yet been released. It will control.
The IRS posted the announcement on its webpage at:
If you don’t want to follow that link, you can go to IRS.gov, and search for “disaster.” The search results include the link to that page.
NOT all of Texas is included in the FEMA disaster relief declarations. Here is the FEMA webpage which lists the original 108 counties and then the additional 31 counties.
https://www.fema.gov/locations/texas
Again, if you don’t want to click that link, go to FEMA.gov, search for “Texas 2021” and, as this is being written, the link to that webpage is the second one down (the first one is to FEMA’s twitter feed).