"two threads were posted here, yesterday, discussing it"

Based on that drinking game reference, I think it was more than just two threads  🙂

On our local 10pm news, the crawl (the bottom ribbon with short notices and alerts) included that...

Filing season opens on Feb 12th.

https://www.kpax.com/news/national/irs-delaying-start-to-tax-filing-season-to-feb-12