The Infernal Revenue Service
I’ve had issues with the IRS for years. Years, and years, and years…….. I could write for weeks about why they piss me off but I’ll save that for other posts.
We owed taxes in 2008. We make far too much money and the IRS feels the need to relieve of us as much as possible. There was a point where I could not seem to have enough taken out of our pay to not owe money. Every year we would owe, I would up our withholding, we would still owe. It got to the point where we were almost withholding more than we took home. I am not kidding, it was ludicrous. ANYWAY, in 2008 we owed, yet again, but I was tired of sending them money so I set up a payment plan. I know I’m paying interest and all that nonsense but screw them. So we’ve been paying that now for over a year. For 2009 we claimed not only a credit for the tax we paid on a new car but also the $8,000 first time home buyers credit. Well, we must have lit up every one of their warning lights.
Six weeks after filing our taxes we got a letter stating that some information was missing from the return. This information was on the credit for the new car. Looking through my copy of the return I found the information they were looking for but I went ahead and filed out their form – again – and sent it back. I even refrained from writing a nasty note that they already had the information. Then we waited.
Yesterday I get in the mail a notice that my 2008 return is undergoing an Examination, which I guess is like an audit but they don’t call me in, and during that Examination they found a discrepancy between what we reported and what they had. As a result we owe them $200 more. Now I could appeal this but I won’t because; a) I think they examined 2008 because we are going to get the big refund for 2009 and they want to make sure they get every penny we owe them before they cut the check, and b) really, I’m going to waste my time and energy fighting the Infernal Revenue Service for $200 when they will win anyway??? I think not.
So yeah, I think we are going to get our huge ass refund and the IRS is trying to keep as much as possible. Since we owe them money for 2008, they will of course pull that out before they cut the check. I think they Examined 2008 to make sure they could get as much from us as possible. The bastards.
Starting over
I started this blog a number of times but I end up not keeping it up because I get frustrated. I get down when I have to think of all the ways we, the average person, gets screwed regularly. I get depressed and I stop writing. Well, I’ve decided to give it one more try. I have a year left on this hosting so why not give it a final try. If it works great, if not I won’t renew the hosting. So, here we go again…..