{"id":1027,"date":"2015-04-28T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:30:26","slug":"cra-extends-2014-income-tax-filing-deadline-to-midnight-tuesday-may-5-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/cra-extends-2014-income-tax-filing-deadline-to-midnight-tuesday-may-5-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"CRA Extends 2014 Income Tax Filing Deadline to Midnight Tuesday, May 5, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada Revenue Agency has announced that the tax filing deadline for submitting 2014 tax returns has been extended to midnight on Tuesday, May 5, 2015:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On April 24, the CRA issued a communication to some Canadians that referred to an incorrect filing deadline for 2014 tax returns of May 5, 2015, rather than April 30, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The CRA takes full responsibility for the error and our first priority is to ensure that no Canadian is negatively affected.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, and at Minister Findlay&#8217;s request, 2014 tax returns filed by midnight on May 5, 2015, will not incur interest or penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The CRA sincerely regrets and apologizes for any confusion this may have caused.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/gncy\/t1gtrdy\/menu-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cra-arc.gc.ca\/gncy\/t1gtrdy\/menu-eng.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the CRA incorrectly cited the tax return deadline as May 5th in a previous communication, it is extending the income tax filing deadline to this date.\u00a0 No additional penalties will be applied if you file on or before May 5th.<\/p>\n<p>This provides Canadians with an extra 5 days (including an extra weekend) to file their income tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>All other deadlines, including the June 15th deadline for self-employed taxpayers, remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada Revenue Agency has announced that the tax filing deadline for submitting 2014 tax returns has been extended to midnight on Tuesday, May 5, 2015: On April 24, the CRA issued a communication to some Canadians that referred to an incorrect filing deadline for 2014 tax returns of May 5, 2015, rather than April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-tools-and-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adjustedcostbase.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}