No need to panic today if you haven’t done your taxes. Today is not tax deadline day. Because this year your taxes aren’t due until Monday, April 18. Is this a late April fool’s joke no? Today (April 15) is Emancipation Day in Washington D.C., when the district celebrates the freedom of the slaves. It’s a local holiday, why we don’t have that Holiday is a good question but anyway the law says tax day may not fall on a weekend, or a holiday so you still have time to crunch the numbers over the weekend.