IRS 'Direct Pay' Option Not Working on Tax Day (cbsnews.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Online payments on IRS.gov are partially down. But the government still expects its money. A page on the IRS website that allows taxpayers to make a payment is not working for many as of Tuesday morning. Clicking on "Make a payment" on the payments page redirects the user to a page titled "unplannedOutagePage. Note that your tax payment is due although IRS Direct Pay may not be available," the page notes. UPDATE 04/17/18: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the Associated Press that online tax filers will get an extension due to today's website outage.

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Re:"Your payment is due even though you can't pay

[TheReaperD]

Wow, someone has an entitled 50 year old oak tree that's slowly grown up their ass. The reason I don't have a checkbook is the fact that I threw the previous two away without ever writing one check. Yes, you can go to the bank and get a check if you find out the IRS website is down before 4pm. But, if you wait until the last minute to pay, and a lot of people do, you may very well be screwed when you get home from work, go to pay the IRS and find that their payment processor is down. Now, in the tax office, we never recommend that they wait until the last day to pay but, how many people are eager to pay the government money before they absolutely have to?