Tax filers will have three extra days to submit their 2022 taxes.

Tax Day, originally on April 15, will be extended to Tuesday, April 18 due to the weekend and observance of Emancipation Day a holiday celebrated in Washington, D.C. By law, D.C. holidays are treated as federal holidays, changing the work schedule for the Internal Revenue Service.

Emancipation Day celebrates the end of slavery in the nation’s capital. It falls on a Sunday this year and the official observance will be on Monday, moving the tax deadline to Tuesday. The deadline for filing Alabama state taxes is also April 18.

The IRS began accepting tax returns on Jan. 23. More than 168 million individual tax returns are expected to be filed, with the vast majority of those coming before the tax deadline in April.

Taxpayers requesting an extension will have until Monday, Oct. 16, to file.

Most returns that are submitted electronically with direct deposit will receive their refunds in 21 days.

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Free file

IRS Free File is open.

The IRS’s Free File program, available only at IRS.gov, allows taxpayers who made $73,000 or less in 2022 to file their taxes electronically for free using software provided by commercial tax filing companies.

Free File Fillable forms, a part of this effort, are available to any income level and provide free electronic forms that people fill out and file themselves also at no cost.