Well, I *am* amused
May. 29th, 2005 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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psongster and I just got a letter from the IRS. It wasn't the most cogent piece of writing, but it seemed to be saying that we made a mistake on our taxes and owed them more money (or less of a refund). Our initial reaction was to shrug and say "ok"; doing the taxes this year was an incredible pain and neither of us had any desire to dive back into spreadsheet/instructions/financial hell. But I wasn't completely sure that it really didn't require any action on our part, and if they were going to do something really nasty if we didn't do something that would be worth avoiding. So I pulled out the photocopies of our tax returns and started chasing numbers.
They gave us $600.
Yes, you heard that right. We *had* made an error, and they *did* catch it. And they unilaterally altered the amount of our refund in response to the error, increasing it by $600. They say we have the right to appeal the change to the Tax Court. We'll think about it and get back to them :-}.
I'm not sure what I'm more amused by--the fact that the IRS is giving money back, or that my first reading made me think that we owed more money. Mostly the second, I think--I see the IRS as having basically good intentions (a little defensive, maybe, but I probably would be too if I had that job).
psongster and I just got a letter from the IRS. It wasn't the most cogent piece of writing, but it seemed to be saying that we made a mistake on our taxes and owed them more money (or less of a refund). Our initial reaction was to shrug and say "ok"; doing the taxes this year was an incredible pain and neither of us had any desire to dive back into spreadsheet/instructions/financial hell. But I wasn't completely sure that it really didn't require any action on our part, and if they were going to do something really nasty if we didn't do something that would be worth avoiding. So I pulled out the photocopies of our tax returns and started chasing numbers.They gave us $600.
Yes, you heard that right. We *had* made an error, and they *did* catch it. And they unilaterally altered the amount of our refund in response to the error, increasing it by $600. They say we have the right to appeal the change to the Tax Court. We'll think about it and get back to them :-}.
I'm not sure what I'm more amused by--the fact that the IRS is giving money back, or that my first reading made me think that we owed more money. Mostly the second, I think--I see the IRS as having basically good intentions (a little defensive, maybe, but I probably would be too if I had that job).