Maybe the new U.S. tax law isn’t...

Maybe the new U.S. tax law isn’t so confusing after all. The Internal Revenue Service said the number of taxpayers who asked for automatic four-month extensions of the April 15 filing deadline was 18.4% below last year’s mark. Slightly more than 5 million extensions were requested last year, and because of the new law, the IRS had anticipated 6.2 million this year.