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Good morning, Washington. It’s tax day — have you all paid the piper or, in many cases, contacted the government about collecting on the no-interest loan you gave it in 2010? If, for whatever reason, you’re a paper filer and have procrastinated until the deadline, only two post offices in the D.C. area are staying open a little bit later tonight — Friendship Station (4005 Wisconsin Avenue NW) and Dorothy I. Height Station (2 Massachusetts Avenue NE) will be open until 8 p.m. — so get those returns done this morning. For those of you who have already paid up (or have new money to burn), be sure to check out some of the deals that are on tap for the taxpaying Washingtonian today.

Should D.C. Lobbying Go Big?: An interesting read by Ben Pershing, in which he examines what the District is actually doing to lobby for further autonomy. Not that much, as it turns out — Pershing reports that the city has been paying some professional lobbyists a few hundred thousand dollars over the past few years to lobby the Hill on behalf of the District’s “public lands issues,” “land development,” and on projects like the redevelopment of St. Elizabeth’s — but not on controversial issues like statehood, gun control or budget autonomy. (Plus, neither Eleanor Holmes Norton nor the city’s Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs even knew they had such representation on less touchy issues.) Former Virginia Representative Tom Davis told Pershing that the District should go big and wine and dine Congressmembers to get them on the city’s side. Quick show of hands: given recent history, does anyone actually trust that the District would be able to do that without making another mess somewhere else? (And does that even matter?)

Vehicle Found In Shaw Shooting: ABC7 reports that police recovered the vehicle used in yesterday afternoon’s shooting of two men near the south entrance of the Shaw-Howard University Metro station. The car, a black SUV, was found in an alley near Vermont Avenue and S Street NW and is believed to have been stolen.

Briefly Noted: Police investigating fire, vandalism at East Washington Heights Baptist Church…Woman stabbed to death in Anacostia Park overnight…The Post asks the at-large candidates how they’d change Gray’s 2012 budget…Hearing on upping D.C.’s subsidy to close 2012 WMATA budget gap to be held this afternoon…East Falls Church redevelopment plan gets OK from Arlington…Visit Assateague or Shenandoah for free this week.

This Day in DCist: Last year, we looked at free parking’s chokehold on the development of H Street NE and were reminded that we do not make NBA money; in 2009, we wondered what you could buy with all the money which unrepresented District residents paid in federal taxes.