IRS Extends Deadline for Californians to File Taxes

Residents and businesses in most California counties—excluding Lassen, Modoc, and Shasta counties—qualify for the deadline extension.

The top of a form 1040 individual income tax return for 2005 is seen atop a stack on the same at the Des Plaines Public Library in Des Plaines, Ill., on March 23, 2006. Tim Boyle/Getty Images

Most Californians have even more time to file last year’s state and federal taxes after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the state’s Franchise Tax Board extended the deadline another month.

Most taxpayers in the Golden State were given an automatic extension until Oct. 16 this year in the wake of last winter’s disastrous storms.