Week in Insights: The Next 122,400 Minutes

Jan. 23, 2022, 3:00 PM UTC

The IRS will officially open tax season this week—on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022—with tax practitioners and taxpayers hoping it will be as close to normal as possible. With a tax filing season deadline for individuals of April 18, 2022 (April 19 for taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts), the tax filing season for federal income tax purposes will be 85 days (86 days for taxpayers in Maine and Massachusetts).

A technician checks hanging clocks at a workshop of a clock company in Yantai, in eastern China's Shandong province on December 15, 2020.
A technician checks hanging clocks at a workshop of a clock company in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province on December 15, 2020.
Photographer: STR/AFP via Getty Images

It doesn’t feel like a long time. But, to put it in perspective, in that same time frame, you could:

  • Travel to the moon and back 14 times—it takes about 3 days ...

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