

Tax Day occasionally falls on Patriots' Day, a civic holiday in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and state of Maine, or the preceding weekend. Alignment with state and District of Columbia holidays and changes in date Today, the deadline remains April 15, unless it falls on a weekend or holiday. The filing deadline for individuals was March 1 in 1913 (the first year of a federal income tax), and was changed to March 15 in 1918, and again to April 15 in 1955. This Amendment gave the United States Congress the legal authority to tax all incomes without regard to the apportionment requirement. In 1913, eighteen years later, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The Act was therefore unconstitutional because it violated the Constitution's rule that direct taxes be apportioned among the states. The Supreme Court decided that the Act's unapportioned income taxes on interest, dividends, and rents were effectively direct taxes. The case was decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1895. challenged the constitutionality of the Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which taxed incomes over $4,000 at the rate of two percent. The early taxes were based on assessments, not voluntary tax returns.


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