[Viking2002]

Yep. The IRS is currently trying to juice us for $390 for some 'filing error' from 2013. Something to do with the house we bought that year and the mortgage lender and realtors were supposed to have handled. We use the 1040 EZ and they're squinting to watch a decimal point moving from one line to another. OK, I'll let the wife handle it. She's already got them chasing their own tails. The last time they played their silly little games was back in 2009. They sent us a tax bill for $1100 for a perceived 'error' from 2004. The wife said, OK, you want to play, we'll play. She saves everything whereas most people actually don't. So, she got out the long form and itemized every last deduction from that year, probably right down to my beer tab, attached all the receipts, then sent it back to them. A couple of weeks later we got a very contrite letter back saying, "Oh, there must have been a data entry error. Would you settle for a $900 refund?" The money was in the bank a week later. Don't try to pick her pocket for money she knows is hers.

[Fai Mao]

This is why the tax code needs to be simplified.
When Demonrats says “A simple tax code is not progressive” what they are saying is that they want a tax code that allows them to threaten and oppress the middle class and poor.

[grey_whiskers]

+1.

The legendary Mrs. Whiskers is similar.

[babygene]

“So, she got out the long form and itemized every last deduction from that year, probably right down to my beer tab, attached all the receipts, then sent it back to them.”

That happened to me one year...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Those morons are still trying to collect about $110 from a bogus filing penalty on my business return from 2009. When I got the first letter in 2010 I had just closed the business. I called my accountant and he said "Is the bank account closed out?". It was so he said that I didn't owe anything but there was nothing left for them to take and it was a corporation so they can't touch my personal accounts. Over the years the IRS kept piling on interest until at one point they were demanding $800. Then suddenly I owed $100 from 2008. I noticed in the most recent letter they are now begging for $110 from 2009 and $81 from 2008. When I die they will still be trying collect. 😆

[Mr Rogers]

Except for fraud, the IRS almost never goes back more than 3 years. And you could not have claimed ANYTHING involving a house using a 1040EZ. So...what were you really doing?