Me & the IRS

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Here we go again......some of you may recall? I had a bout with the IRS roughly 4-6 weeks ago , over an erroneous refund. I was refunded 3 times what I was expecting. I contacted them, they said return half of [that] amount. I did. All was well.....well now ? not so.

Now I get a letter saying , return the other half of [that] amount? With no mention of my original refund amount due, which was @ that time one third of [that] amount. If no action is taken on my part in 10 days, fines will be assessed ?

So I have a call in to them...waiting for a return call.

This may not be settled till it is tax season again........<sigh>
 

I tangled with the IRS once a long time ago. The IRS is relentless and unreasonable. I'd return the other half of the overpayment immediately, via certified mail.
 

Camper6 said:
I would never have told them about the overpayment in the first place.

They made the mistake.

It's up to them to correct it.
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I didn't, they sent a letter the first time...I then contacted them, had it cleared up I thought.....Now I get another letter.

Now they want the other half of the mistake back...Well OK...I'm @ this point still over refunded anyway. But.....what about the refund I was supposed to receive?

Since last April, still no mention of that !
 
Reminded me of this problem.
Three men go to stay at a motel, and the man at the desk charged them $30 for a room. They split the cost $10 each. Later, the desk man realized he overcharged the men, that the actual cost should have been $25. The desk man gives the bellboy $5 and tells him to give it to the men. The smart bellboy realized $5 could not split equally up 3 ways, so he kept $2 and gave the men $1 each. Now each man paid $9 to stay in the room and 3 x $9 = $27. The bellboy kept $2. $27 + $2 = $29. So where is the missing $1?
 
The IRS is really picky about forms. Documented thru Fidelity paper trail the sale of some stock & immediately put into a self directed IRA I didn't know that wouldn't satisfy the IRS. The transaction had to be documented on schedule D. Aletter explaining I owed $55,000.00 on top of what I already had paid got my attention really quick. I took my Fidelity paperwork to the IRS office, got help filing an amended form & actually got a little over $600.00 back.


The $25.00 room


$25.00 for the room.
$3.00 $1.00 back to each man
$2.00 for the bellboy
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$30.00
 
wasserball said:
Reminded me of this problem.
Three men go to stay at a motel, and the man at the desk charged them $30 for a room. They split the cost $10 each. Later, the desk man realized he overcharged the men, that the actual cost should have been $25. The desk man gives the bellboy $5 and tells him to give it to the men. The smart bellboy realized $5 could not split equally up 3 ways, so he kept $2 and gave the men $1 each. Now each man paid $9 to stay in the room and 3 x $9 = $27. The bellboy kept $2. $27 + $2 = $29. So where is the missing $1?
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This brain teaser used to drive me crazy until I realized that the math is figured backwards. The room isn't $25 it's effectively $27. $9 for each man covers the $25 room and the $2 tip. Since they each got back $1 from the bellboy the math works. (It's not $27 plus $2, it's $27 plus $3.)
 
Well the IRS lady called back. It seems I did do the correct thing a month ago. Returning half of the erroneous refund. She said it had not been received & processed , before the second , [current] letter/form was mailed too me. Her instructions were to just ignore this notice. I hope she's right this time...

Gotta luv government bureaucracy & snail mail !

Remember this all started in April <shaking my head>
 

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