For most Americans with a six-month extension on their 2025 income tax return, October 15 is the last day to file. In six Washington counties, it is not. The Internal Revenue Service has moved the deadline for extended 2025 individual returns to February 1, 2027, and has done the same for estimated tax installments that came due after the wildfires began. The relief covers Chelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Spokane, Stevens and Yakima counties, but it stops short of one payment that many extension filers are counting on.
The IRS announced the postponement on August 31 as notice WA-2026-03. It follows a Federal Emergency Management Agency declaration, number 3650-EM, for wildfires that began on July 31, 2026. Besides the six counties, the notice names three tribal nations: the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Douglas County, Washington, has its own separate IRS notice with the same February date…