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which_chick) wrote2022-01-28 08:29 am
which_chick) wrote2022-01-28 08:29 am
More Fun With The IRS
So on Tuesday when I drove dad to the airport (because he likes going to visit his beach house in Mexico and he went last year despite pandemic and there isn't a damn thing I can do to make him behave more sensibly and me driving him to the airport is better than him driving himself to the airport -- he's 80 years old in March and completely noncompliant) I got a letter from the IRS alleging that I had not filed a 2020 income tax return.
The letter also noted that the IRS had credited my account to the tune of $3500 and warned/threatened me that if I didn't file a 1040 for 2020 Real Soon Now, that $3500 credit would evaporate and be lost forever.
Nice to see that they're taking good care of my money.
So, I wrote them back, as follows:
Dear IRS:
Thank you for your letter dated 1-24-2022 in which you alleged that you had not received my tax return for tax year 2020.
In the letter, you noted that you'd credited my account the sum of $3500.00. In an astonishing coincidence that scarcely seems believable, $3500 is the exact amount of check 2370 which I wrote on April 15, 2021 and enclosed with my 2020 tax return when I mailed it to the IRS in April of 2021.
It is a mystery to me how you received and deposited that check but DID NOT receive the tax return when both items were mailed to you in the same envelope.
Further, in May of 2021, I filed a 1040x for 2020 in an attempt to get the $600 of pandemic money that I never got. When I mailed off the 1040x, I enclosed a complete copy of the original 1040 form as filed, as per the instructions for same. So, if you didn’t get the 1040 I sent in April with the check (but somehow managed to get the check anyway), you should still have gotten the 1040x with attached 1040-as-filed that I sent in May. Guess you didn’t get that one either.
At any rate, enclosed please find the following numbered attachments…
1. a copy of the letter you sent to me
2. a photo of the negotiated check 2370 that was enclosed with my original 2020 1040 return
3. a copy of my 2020 1040 return as filed in April of 2021
4. a copy of the 1040x for 2020 that I filed in May of 2021 for the $600 of stimulus I never got
Warm regards,
Me
We'll see what they do. One HOPES they will say "Sorry, here's your missing $600" but somehow I doubt that will happen.
You, dear reader, might well be all "Well, maybe you put the check in the envelope but forgot to put the return in."
The return is 14 pages long. It takes a big, beefy yellow envelope and a SPECIAL TRIP TO THE POST OFFICE to mail because a regular envelope with one stamp won't git r done. You can't shove fourteen pages of tax return plus a W-2 plus a check into a standard business envelope. It is exceedingly unlikely that I failed to include the return in the envelope with the check. The return has weight. It is hefty.
And again, I also filed a 1040X in May of 2021. That's the form for an amended return. When you file it, you have to send WITH IT a complete copy of the original 1040 that you are amending. And I did that.
They've had two chances to get my 1040 for 2020 and they have failed both times BUT YET they got my check and deposited it.
It do be a mystery.
The letter also noted that the IRS had credited my account to the tune of $3500 and warned/threatened me that if I didn't file a 1040 for 2020 Real Soon Now, that $3500 credit would evaporate and be lost forever.
Nice to see that they're taking good care of my money.
So, I wrote them back, as follows:
Dear IRS:
Thank you for your letter dated 1-24-2022 in which you alleged that you had not received my tax return for tax year 2020.
In the letter, you noted that you'd credited my account the sum of $3500.00. In an astonishing coincidence that scarcely seems believable, $3500 is the exact amount of check 2370 which I wrote on April 15, 2021 and enclosed with my 2020 tax return when I mailed it to the IRS in April of 2021.
It is a mystery to me how you received and deposited that check but DID NOT receive the tax return when both items were mailed to you in the same envelope.
Further, in May of 2021, I filed a 1040x for 2020 in an attempt to get the $600 of pandemic money that I never got. When I mailed off the 1040x, I enclosed a complete copy of the original 1040 form as filed, as per the instructions for same. So, if you didn’t get the 1040 I sent in April with the check (but somehow managed to get the check anyway), you should still have gotten the 1040x with attached 1040-as-filed that I sent in May. Guess you didn’t get that one either.
At any rate, enclosed please find the following numbered attachments…
1. a copy of the letter you sent to me
2. a photo of the negotiated check 2370 that was enclosed with my original 2020 1040 return
3. a copy of my 2020 1040 return as filed in April of 2021
4. a copy of the 1040x for 2020 that I filed in May of 2021 for the $600 of stimulus I never got
Warm regards,
Me
We'll see what they do. One HOPES they will say "Sorry, here's your missing $600" but somehow I doubt that will happen.
You, dear reader, might well be all "Well, maybe you put the check in the envelope but forgot to put the return in."
The return is 14 pages long. It takes a big, beefy yellow envelope and a SPECIAL TRIP TO THE POST OFFICE to mail because a regular envelope with one stamp won't git r done. You can't shove fourteen pages of tax return plus a W-2 plus a check into a standard business envelope. It is exceedingly unlikely that I failed to include the return in the envelope with the check. The return has weight. It is hefty.
And again, I also filed a 1040X in May of 2021. That's the form for an amended return. When you file it, you have to send WITH IT a complete copy of the original 1040 that you are amending. And I did that.
They've had two chances to get my 1040 for 2020 and they have failed both times BUT YET they got my check and deposited it.
It do be a mystery.