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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on December 21, 2021, 01:40:51 PM
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MineralMan (140,852 posts)
I hate letters from the IRS!
We subscribe to the USPS system that tells you in the morning what mail should arrive that day. Among the mail pieces I do not look forward to are letters from the IRS. Generally, they contain a demand for payment of something - typically some small penalty for late filing in my case. But, you just never know until you open the envelope.
Yesterday, I saw that yet another IRS missive was coming to my mailbox. This time, though, it had my late parents' names on it. I filed their 2020 1040 on October 15, 2021, after getting the automatic filing extension. Problem was that their papers were in disarray. Most records of their farm expenses were missing. It's understandable. My Mom had severe Alzheimer's and they were both 96 years old when they died.
So, I did my best to figure out their taxes, and lacking documentation for much of their deductible expenses, paid more taxes for them than they would have owed if I had the information. That's OK, though. I didn't mind, really. What they left covered it with no problem. So, I figured that IRS letter was going to end up with me looking for additional documentation that doesn't exist and trying to explain.
Not so. The letter was a notification of some tax credit for the 2018 tax year. $1000. But, there was a catch. My parents didn't file that year, because they didn't have to. Their medical expenses far exceeded the income from the farm they owned. So, their accountant just didn't file at all.
The IRS, however, told me that I had to file their 2018 1040 to get that $1000. In the letter it said that if I did not file, that $1000 would not be paid. Well, I have zero paperwork for 2018, and their accountant died of COVID-19, so that's the end of that. I will shrug that off, because there is no possibility of my filing without the required records.
The IRS knows they died. I sent along their death certificates and a cover letter to that effect with the 2020 filing. I explained the lack of records due to their age and just paid what Turbo Tax told me they owed. It should probably have been nothing. But...papers...I didn't have them.
Will that be the end of this? I doubt it. I expect a few more IRS letters addressed to my late parents. The IRS, like the honey badger, don't care.
Oh, well...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216170431
But but government is great! You said so yourself....
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:rotf: Pay your taxes, rich boy! :rotf: Be glad your tax rate isn't 110% like it should be, rich boy! :rotf:
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He's just letting the other DUmmies know he can blow off $1,000. No skin off his nose, he didn't earn it.
At least the tax paying Americans are getting back a portion of the $9k we paid to bury his dad.
KC
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But, there was a catch. My parents didn't file that year, because they didn't have to. Their medical expenses far exceeded the income from the farm they owned. So, their accountant just didn't file at all.
what kind of legitimate accountant doesn't file a client's return if their deductions exceed their income?
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Sucks to be you, Rocks-for-Brains. :rotf:
I happen to L*O*V*E getting love notes from the IRS, because I've got copies of my tax records going back the entirety of my married life (19 years, as of November).
Last time one of them tried to claim I owed them money for X tax year, I sat down with a fresh 1040 form, re-did the paperwork in the span of about 1/2 an hour, double checked the math over 10 more minutes, and then compared what I got this time to what I filed back then. It never comes out in their favor.
Life sure is a lot simpler when you're not a DUmbass trying to scam your neighbors...
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Pay your fair share, Rock Head!!!
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Response to Tetrachloride (Reply #1)Tue Dec 21, 2021, 03:09 PM
Star Member MineralMan (140,859 posts)
4. No need. It's not all that much money.
If the IRS sends me a bill, I send them a check and they don't bother me any further.
Couldn't be simpler. You do not want to get into a long drawn-out thing with the IRS. Trust me.
Chicken feed. Chump change. Mr. Big Stuff wouldn't even waste the amount of time it would take to stoop down and pick up such a paltry sum off the ground.
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Go ahead and file to get your $1000 then find out the accountant screwed your parents and they actually owed a bunch and now you're on the hook for it because you fell for an IRS trick.
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:rotf: Pay your taxes, rich boy! :rotf: Be glad your tax rate isn't 110% like it should be, rich boy!
I think it would be good if Minnesota Moses, in his waning days where every night he pitches his tent one day's march closer to the mausoleum, sat down and contemplated how much he'd disappointed his parents, asking their forgiveness for letting them down.
It'd make passage from this place to the other place easier for him.