I promised to tell my recent story about dealing with the IRS.
Premise: I have been personally audited once, and my business audited twice, all since 2009.
The IRS scares the hell out of me.
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Story:
Back in May I received a letter in the IRS, claiming that I failed to pay my additional tax burden from 2021. I under withheld that year. My bad. That was $8500.00.
The letter said I owed $12,250 with interest and penalties.
I immediately paid it with a credit card (the IRS scares the hell out of me).
The next morning it dawned on me that I did in fact pay them in 2022, with my filing.
I called the IRS immediately and said a mistake was made in the IRS' favor and proved it with a cancelled check.
After about a half hour, the lady on the other end admitted this mistake. They applied the check to my wife's account - we filed jointly, as always, and why this was done is still without answer.
I asked for a refund on my payment, and was told it was not possible and that I would need to dispute the charge with my credit card company. That is a crock of shit, but I did it anyway.
After two months of dicking around, my credit card company told me it was a no-go.
So, now I'm pissed. I call the IRS again, sat on hold for 90 minutes, and finally got some asshole who said it was not their problem that I overpaid and that no refund would be issued. I hung up on the bitch.
The next day, I contacted Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) and alerted him to the problem.
3 weeks later, I had a check in the mail for my $12,250.
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Moral of the story is to not act in haste.
That and the IRS is f'ing EVIL. I wonder how many other people they have done this to.
F the IRS.
Oh, that, and Byron Donalds is awesome.
