June 15 may be best known to many as the day that, in 1215, the Magna Carta – a precedent-setting "royal charter of rights" – was signed (by the application of a seal) by King John of England, at a place called Runnymede.

To millions of American expats around the world, though, it is famous for being the day that their U.S. taxes are due, unless they've applied for an extension to October – which they are within their rights to do, but it's not automatically given to them...

Oct. 15 is the final, final due date for Americans to file their U.S. tax returns with the IRS in 2021.

With this all-important deadline just hours away, we thought it worth asking, on behalf of those expat Americans who still haven't filed their 1040s, what they can, or should, be doing now...

Uncle Sam – in the rather more official (and less colorful) form of the Internal Revenue Service – is reminding U.S. expats that as it is now October, this means they only have two weeks left to get their U.S. tax returns in, if they opted to take advantage of the extension that lets such taxpayers have until Oct. 15 to file their 2020 returns.

As the countdown  continues to Tax Day in the U.S., on Monday, we thought it would be a good time to call attention to a rather quirky collection of tax quotations that we stumbled on, buried deep inside the IRS’s website.

Yup. For all its unflinching greediness, which seems to radiate from its very website at this time of year, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service would seem, on at least some level, to be aware of certain ironies, hypocrisies and even undeniably funny things that are fundamental to the business of taxing people...