Connecticut Taxpayers Impacted by Storms Qualify for Tax Relief

The IRS has announced tax relief for individuals and businesses in parts of Connecticut affected by severe storms, flooding, and a potential dam breach that began on January 10. These taxpayers now have until June 17, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. (IR 2024-17, 1/22/2024)

The IRS is offering relief to any area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Currently, this includes New London County, including the Mohegan Tribal Nation and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. Individuals and households that reside or have a business in these localities qualify for tax relief.

The same relief will be available to any other Connecticut localities added later to the disaster area. The current list of eligible localities is always available on the disaster relief page on IRS.gov.

Filing and payment relief

The tax relief postpones various tax filing and payment deadlines that occurred from Jan. 10, 2024, through June 17, 2024 (postponement period). As a result, affected individuals and businesses will have until June 17, 2024, to file returns and pay any taxes that were originally due during this period.

This means, for example, that the June 17, 2024, deadline will now apply to:

• Individual returns due on April 15, 2024.

• 2023 contributions to IRAs and health savings accounts for eligible taxpayers.

• Quarterly estimated income tax payments normally due on January 16 and April 15, 2024.

• Quarterly payroll and excise tax returns normally due on January 31 and April 30, 2024.
• Calendar-year partnership and S corporation returns normally due on March 15, 2024.
• Calendar-year corporation and fiduciary returns and payments normally due on April 15, 2024.
• Calendar-year tax-exempt organization returns normally due on May 15, 2024.

The IRS disaster relief page has details on other returns, payments and tax-related actions qualifying for relief during the postponement period.

Reminder about extensions

The IRS urges anyone who needs an additional tax-filing extension, beyond June 17, for their 2023 federal income tax return to request it electronically by April 15. Though a disaster-area taxpayer qualifies to request an extension between April 15 and June 17, a request filed during this period can only be submitted on paper. Visit IRS.gov/Extensionsfor details.

Additional tax relief

Individuals and businesses in a federally declared disaster area who suffered uninsured or unreimbursed disaster-related losses can choose to claim them on either the return for the year the loss occurred, or the return for the prior year (2023). For individual taxpayers, this means October 15, 2025. Be sure to write the FEMA declaration number – 3604-EM − on any return claiming a loss. See Publication 547, Casualties, Disasters, and Thefts, for details.

For more information about claiming disaster losses, see Checkpoint’s Federal Tax Coordinator ¶ M-2000.