Economy

IRS website fails on tax filing day

By Joseph Lawler
Published April 17, 2018 12:39pm ET
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IRS website fails on tax filing day
FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. The IRS website to make payments went down on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. The IRS did not have an immediate explanation for the failure. But it said on its website that its online payment system became unavailable at 2:50 A.M. ET on Tuesday. | (Susan Walsh/AP)

Taxpayers trying to file their taxes online right at the deadline Tuesday were facing a major problem: The IRS site was not working.

David Kautter, the acting IRS commissioner, told House lawmakers that a number of the agency’s systems were not working Tuesday.

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