Maryland botches Tax Day
When I lived in Delaware every Tax Day the post offices would paste a sign on their door noting that while they were closed, here is the closest location open for time-stamping your taxes. A single piece of paper on the door with a single address listed; it was simple and effective. Any procrastinating tax preparer at the eleventh hour is going to start at their local post office, and then proceed from there based on the instructions provided.
But Maryland didn’t provide any instructions. The Rockville Post Office was open to the public, but there were no signs, no workers, no notes, no instructions, no clear path at all what to do. There were also a dozen eleventh hour tax preparers inside befuddled and frustrated.
Somewhere in Maryland a post office was collecting filings. How hard would it have been to make that location known to the people of Maryland?
What did you do? How’d they find someone? Do you just yell for someone? Oh confusing. Too bad they did’t get caught up in the Turbo Tax mess, they would’ve at least bought some more time.
I was just sending quarterly taxes, my annuals had already been sent. So, I threw it in the box, and accepted that it would be late. As for the rest of the collective there, I have no idea how they resolved things.