US authorities delay tax filing deadline by three months

US President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reply questions in the course of the Trump administration’s day by day coronavirus briefing on the White Home [File: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the administration of President Donald Trump has determined to push the revenue tax filing date to July 15 from April 15.

Mnuchin introduced the decision in a tweet on Friday saying that at Trump’s course “we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15. All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties.”

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The administration had introduced earlier within the week that it will delay the funds, a transfer that Mnuchin stated would go away $300bn within the economy at a vital time.

Mnuchin and different members of Trump’s financial team convened on Friday on Capitol Hill to launch negotiations with Senate Republicans and Democrats racing to draft a $1 trillion-plus financial rescue bundle amid the coronavirus outbreak.

It’s the largest effort but to shore up households and the US economy because the pandemic and its nationwide shutdown hurtles the nation in the direction of a probable recession.

Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell unveiled the Republican opening supply to pump $1,200 direct cheques to taxpayers, $300bn for small companies to maintain idled staff on payrolls and $208bn in loans to airways and different industries.

The GOP chief’s effort builds on Trump’s request for Congress to “go big”.

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