Reminder of Change in Federal Corporate and Partnership Filing Deadlines

This is a reminder that the filing deadline for calendar year 2016 federal partnership returns (Form 1065) has changed to March 15, 2017.

For those federal partnerships that need additional time to file the Form 7004 (Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File Certain Business Income Tax, Information and Other Returns) must be filed by Wednesday, March 15, 2017.

Also remember that the deadline for federal Corporate (Form 1120) returns was changed to April 15 which means 2016 calendar year federal corporate returns will be due on Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

March 15 is also the deadline for federal Subchapter S corporate returns (Form 1120S).

                                                          

IRS Announces Start Dates for 2016 Filing Season

The IRS has announced the start dates of the 2016 filing season.

Individual returns (1040): Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Business returns (1120, 1120-S, and 1065): Saturday, January 9, 2016

See the 2016 Tax Season Opens January 19 for Nation's Taxpayers news release (December 21, 2015) on the IRS website for more information on the start date for individual (1040) returns.