Is the IRS open on Presidents Day, even though it’s a national holiday?
Getty Today — February 21, 2022 — is Presidents Day. But if you’re wanting to know if you can contact the IRS today or if you’ll get a deposit on your tax refund, the answer is that you’ll need to wait. Presidents Day is a federal holiday, which means the IRS is closed today. Tax filing season just started on January 24, 2022, KRDO reported. So it hasn’t even been that long since the IRS began accepting and processing 2021 tax returns, and they’re already going on a holiday. But this is normal. The IRS typically starts tax season shortly before the Presidents Day holiday. According to OPM.gov, Presidents Day (aka Washington’s Birthday) is one of the observed federal holidays when most federal employees don’t work. OPM noted, “Federal law (5 U.S.C.6103) establishes the public holidays listed in these pages for Federal employees. Please note that most Federal employees work on a Monday through Friday schedule. For these employees, when a holiday falls on a nonworkday — Saturday or Sunday — the holiday usually is observed on Monday (if the holiday falls on Sunday) or Friday (if the holiday falls on Saturday).” Washington’s Birthday is the third observed holiday of 2022, preceded by New Year’s Day and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. Federal offices are also closed on Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
