The Tax
Division received about 21,000 applications for automatic six-month filing
extensions this year, up about 2 percent from last year.
The
extension applications were accompanied by about $52.13 million in payments of
personal income tax, down 9.56 percent from last year.
In general,
an application for an automatic six-month extension must be filed on paper –
typically using Form RI-4868
– by mid-April. It is an extension of the time to file, not of the time to pay;
payments still must be paid by the usual mid-April deadline. (The Tax Division does
not currently accept electronically filed extensions. However, the actual returns
that are filed on extension can be e-filed.)
|
|
Filing season 2011
|
Filing season 2012
|
Difference
|
|
Extension
requests
|
20,953
|
21,347
|
+
1.88%
|
|
Payments
|
$ 57,638,000
|
$ 52,130,000
|
-
9.56%
|
|
Average
payment per request
|
$ 2,751
|
$ 2,442
|
-
11.23%
|
