On cspan, online at cspan. Org and listen live on the free cspan radio app. The commissioner of the irs testified before the Senate Finance committee on the impact of the coronavirus on the 2020 taxis and including efforts season including efforts to help taxpayers and Small Business. This is just over two hours. [gavel] sen. Grassley commissioner rettig, thank you for agreeing to testify on 2020 tax Filing Season and the irs handling of challenges that are posed because of the pandemic. The 2020 Filing Season got off to its typical start at the end of january. However since then, this Filing Season has been anything but typical. As a result of the National Health emergency stemming from the ongoing pandemic, almost all regular tax filing and tax payment deadlines have been extended. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There is some rumors it might be extended again. I dont know.
Filing season and the irss. Andling of challenges at the 2020 Filing Season got off to a typical start. Since then, this Filing Season as been anything but typical a result of the National Health emergency stemming from the ongoing pandemic. Almost all regular tax filing and tax payment deadlines have been extended. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines, which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There are some rumors they might be extended again. I dont know. I have heard that at least once. Extendedhese deadlines, the tax Filing Season continues with many taxpayers still filing taxes as usual to get their tax refund. At the same time, consistent with the Government Shutdown orders and cdc guidance, the irs limited much of its work to essential services, closed a number of facilities, and instituted telework policies where practical. Shortstaffed irs during the busiest time of the year. Understandably, that meant to taxpay
Commissioner rettig, thank you for agreeing to testify on 2020 tax Filing Season and the irs handling of challenges that are posed because of the pandemic. 2020 Filing Season got off to its typical start at the end of january. However since then, this Filing Season has been anything but typical. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There is some rumors it might be extended again. I dont know. I have heard that at least once. Despite these extended dialogue deadlines, the tax Filing Season continued with money still filing taxes as usual asy still filing taxes usual. At the same time consistent with Government Shutdown orders and cdc guidance, the irs limited much of its work to essential services, closed a number of facilities and instituted telework policies where practical. Shortstaffed irs during the busiest time of the year. That meant taxpayers experience longer wait times to
Giants is this saturday against the dodgers, i thought about baseball this morning because my kiss my little one good night he has an old buster posey doll tucked in amongst his menagerie of animals and im like buster posey, i remember the heyday of those giant championships. I remember when he was a rookie interviewing him on the field and he was just a rookie, you know he wound up getting three world series titles and the fact the giants are celebrating the first title later this year in august and a big celebration honoring the 2010 team and someone will not be there and that is aubrey huff but he is not backing down from his feud with the Giants Organization and he appeared on fox news this morning criticizing the team while defending some of his most recent controversial tweets bit i have been that guy not afraid to lay it out there and i just love talking to people and seeing how far i can go in this world of political correctness. It drives me nuts. In august the giants will cel
Oakland and out to fairfield. 40s and 50s on the temps with a blustery day on the peninsula and mid50s for everybody. Woodside 51 and 57 over to fremont with mostly sunny skies and breezy to windy at times with a cooler pattern the next couple of days and we will see temperatures holding where they are today into friday and then by the weekend we will see warmer patterns. 60s and low 70s. Sal is here and what do you focus on first . The east bay commute. We went on the air at 4 00 a. M. And it was wet in some areas but now it has dried off in some spots. As steve said, the wet weather has moved out and it may be damp but it did kind of miss the morning commute and that is good for us. If you are driving on the east bay commute, 580 at the tracy triangle is very, very slow because of earlier crashes and we also had slow traffic on vasco road because of an earlier grass fire near Camino Diablo with the fire out now but it did damage with traffic on 280 and san jose slow. Its better than