GRACE PERIOD NOT ENOUGH SOME STILL FILLING TAXES LATE THIS YEAR.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer The tax man cometh. With only hours left to mail their returns before today's midnight deadline, procrastinators across Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, are scrambling to fill out forms or making last-minute calls to get help from the experts.At least Tammy Linton, 31, of North Hollywood has an excuse: She's a traveling nurse traveling nurse A nurse who travels to find employment because of the relative lack of opportunity in his/her local area , shuttling back and forth across the country on temporary assignments. Her job makes for one complicated tax return. ``It's stressful every year,'' Linton said. ``People who work multiple places, it's kind of hard to get paperwork together.'' Linton has a residence in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , where she also works, so she has to worry about paying income taxes in two states. She also needs to gather up travel receipts and several different W-2 forms W-2 Form The form that an employer must send to an employee and the IRS at the end of the year. The W-2 form reports an employee's annual wages and the amount of taxes withheld from his or her paycheck. . On Sunday, she walked into a Lankershim Boulevard H&R Block, hoping someone could help her out. By April 7, about 4 million of California's 15.6 million taxpayers had still not filed, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Internal Revenue Service. ``Almost one out four Californians wait until the last minute to complete their taxes, and it would be much easier for them if they would try to e-file their taxes,'' IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. spokesman Victor Omelczenko said. By filing electronically, taxpayers can work faster and the program catches their math errors, he said. Taxpayers could also try walking into an accountant's office. But this late in the game, many accountants are too busy to do anything more than help late filers mail in an extension request. This is an unusual tax year because April 15, the customary filing date, fell on the weekend. That automatically pushed the filing date to today, and on Easter Sunday many accountants worked for at least part of the day. ``(In) this line of business, we don't go on vacation this time of year,'' Van Nuys accountant Craig Asanuma, 45, said. Chatsworth accountant Rodney Canter canter a gallop at an easy pace. The rhythm is three-time, first one hind, then the opposite hind with the diagonal fore, then the opposite fore, the leading limb. collected canter , 59, said that after weeks of working around the clock, his family wants to see him again. But the clients keep him busy. ``A lot of people they know they're going to owe money so they wait later and later to go in to have their returns prepared,'' he said. ``And we're seeing more people go on extension this year than ever before.'' alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: April Storm, right, of Sherman Oaks gets her 1040 tax form completed by Jackson Hewitt  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section is .Please help improve the article by adding information and sources on neglected viewpoints, or by summarizing and tax preparer Sharon Finley. John Lazar/Staff Photographer Box: TAX DAY |
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