Portions of the IRS payment system are down. That means you can’t use a bank account to pay your tax bill right now.
Hours before the midnight Tax Day deadline, the Internal Revenue Service page for paying your tax bill using your bank account has crashed.
The IRS «Direct Pay» page allows filers to transfer funds from their checking or savings account to pay what they owe. As of 11:50 AM on April 17 — Tax Day — the page was unavailable.
Direct Pay is a free service.
The » Payment Plan » page, where filers can pay their tax bill in installments also appears to have crashed.
Taxpayers tweeted their frustration on Tuesday morning.
Filers apparently can still use the IRS site to pay via a debit or credit card; however you’ll be on the hook for fees ranging between $2.00 and $3.95 for debit transactions and expenses approaching 2 percent for credit card payments.
Don’t forget: You can also still pay what you owe with a paper check.
The IRS did not have immediate comment.
Calls to tax preparers TurboTax and H&R Block to check on the statuses of their sites were not immediately returned.
This morning, the New York State Tax Department also announced on its Twitter page that its Personal Income Tax Extension web app was experiencing system problems.
Just prior to noon, the department announced access to its application was restored.
