Trying to do your civic duty and pay your taxes? Tough luck, says the IRS.
Anyone trying to access their IRS.gov account for much of tax day — yes, that's today — has faced the dreaded "service is currently unavailable" screen. Taxpayers apparently can't view their outstanding balance or make a payment until the year 9999 due to a "planned outage." Too bad the 2017 filing deadline is at midnight.
Taxpayers should continue filing as normal, an IRS spokesman told NPR. The IRS, of course, apologizes for any inconvenience.
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