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IRS just told me it's double-checking EVERYONE's return if the refund exceeds $2500.00
The Infernal Revenue Service ^
| Feb 17, 2005
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Posted on 02/17/2005 11:05:17 AM PST by Salgak
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To: 1rudeboy
This is not physically possible. The IRS does not have the manpower."Double check" is not an audit.
It means some low level government knucklehead glances at it, looks away, then glances at it again.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:12:28 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Bikers4Bush
I agree, a guy I know got $7,000 back a week after he filed electronically.Nothing like giving your uncle an interest free $7000 loan for a year.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:12:31 AM PST
by
tx_eggman
("All I need to know about Islam I learned on 09/11/01" - Crawdad)
To: Bikers4Bush
a guy I know got $7,000 back a week after he filed electronically. He's either over withheld or had an unusual year.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:13:30 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: dead
I understand that . . . I simply find it more likely that some government knucklehead picked-up the phone when Salgak rang.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:13:51 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: theDentist
The IRS currently emloys half again more people than the entire US Army.
To: 1rudeboy
Yes, that's likely too. He probably answered it twice, just to be sure.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:16:17 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Salgak
You could ask 100 people at the IRS a question, and get 100 different answers. The person who told you that sounds like a
"quota hire".
To: dead
Double checked means it is shuffled to another desk before it is mailed.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:16:45 AM PST
by
antivenom
(If your not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!!!)
To: ancient_geezer
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:17:23 AM PST
by
Conservative Goddess
(Veritas vos Liberabit, in Vino, Veritas....QED, Vino vos Liberabit)
To: coloradan
That's what I told him too.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:19:33 AM PST
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
To: Salgak
I'm getting back $2694 and I didn't get any such notice. My refund should post tomorrow (according to their website) - I e-filed on the 9th of Feb.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:19:45 AM PST
by
bkwells
(GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!)
To: 1Old Pro; tx_eggman
He's got two kids and a stay at home wife and claims nada.
I told him he could do himself a favor by having them deduct less and increasing his cash flow but he's one of those that likes the big check.
You can lead a horse to water.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:21:47 AM PST
by
Bikers4Bush
(Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
To: Salgak
To: Bikers4Bush
I agree, a guy I know got $7,000 back a week after he filed electronically. Dont file electronically, it simplifies their job.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:25:43 AM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
To: Bikers4Bush
if you get a refund, you've paid too much.
To: 1rudeboy
Won't be the first time that the IRS has given-out bum information over the phone. The thing I have noticed is that if you don't like the first answer they give you, just call back and you'll get a different answer. Call ten times and you will get ten different answers.
They don't seem to know anymore about the tax code than I do --- they just seem to make it up as they go.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:26:37 AM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Salgak
Support the Fair Tax. Bury the income tax.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:29:25 AM PST
by
reelfoot
To: Salgak
You probably talked to one of their Bangalore employees.
To: dead
Actually, I think this means they use the computer to compare what items you reported versus what items were reported to them. For example, they check to see that your W-2 reported income exactly matches the W-2 provided to them. Same thing with other "information returns" provided to the IRS, like 1099's, Interest and Dividends, etc.
I had one of these computer checks last year that caught a difference between what I reported on my return and one of the 1099's that was in my return. Turns out I had an explanation, but that didn't stop the computer from reporting my return as "faulty".
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:30:37 AM PST
by
USNA74
To: Salgak
My guesses:
1. The IRS drone told you the first explanation that popped into his head so he could get back to his coffee break.
2. The IRS does extra checks (i.e. see if the bank account is the same one as last year's return) on large refunds to detect scam artists who file bogus returns for refunds to be deposited in a one-shot dropbox account, on the theory that nobody is going to risk a term in the federal pen for less than $X.
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posted on
02/17/2005 11:30:45 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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