Tax day

• Need a personal stimulus package after filing your income tax? Youre in luck.
(Hartford Courant)
• You may want to stay off the roads early next week: a new study shows that the risk of fatal car crashes goes up on tax day.
(Time)
• If you need another reason to be wary of Tax Day, some Canadian researchers have found one. Fatal car crashes rise on the deadline for filing federal taxes. Thats April 17 this year, if youre making travel plans.
(NPR News)
• Drivers were slightly less likely than passengers and pedestrians to be killed, claims the study.
(New York Daily News)
• The two certainties in life - death and taxes - may be more intertwined than Ben Franklin ever imagined: A study found that deadly auto accidents increase on Tax Day. Drivers recklessly racing to the post office to meet the deadline might be one reason.
(KSTP)
• For many Americans, Tax Day—April 17, this year—means writing a check. For most it means a refund. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service refunded $300 billion, or 25 cents for every $1 it collected.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Tens of millions of us routinely wait until just before the deadline to file returns. More than 30 percent of taxpayers filed the week before Tax Day or later via extensions in 2011, and Internal Revenue Service statistics show the pace is similar this year.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• Few things are as daunting as filing ones income taxes, and there are plenty of freebies and deals being offered to cushion the blow.
(Chicago Tribune)
• Go here to get a coupon for a free order of curly fries from Arbys in honor of tax day. Promo details: Arby's is making Tax Day a little more lucrative and exciting for the average American this year.
(Everything Alabama Blog)
• Tax day can be hazardous to your health.
(Boston Globe)