The month of April has begun with New Jersey standing as the only state in the country not to relax its deadline for filing state income-tax returns in response to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.
While Gov. Phil Murphy continues to suggest publicly that an announcement from his administration is imminent — as he did again Tuesday during his daily media briefing on the crisis — his signaling hasn’t stopped a groundswell of confusion from erupting on social-media pages and in other forums.
The federal government and most other states have already taken action to give taxpayers a break.
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UPDATE: Gov. Murphy has just extended the deadline:
BREAKING: The New Jersey state tax filing deadline WILL BE EXTENDED from April 15th to July 15th.
Additionally, the state fiscal year will be extended to September 30th to allow us to focus on leading our state out of this crisis.
Thank you, @SpeakerCoughlin and @NJSenatePres. pic.twitter.com/kQFgsBKDHA
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) April 1, 2020
