Posted on 05/16/2013 5:31:03 PM PDT by beebuster2000
Our kid (25 now) was sent a bill for underpayment in 2010 He was at his first job after college (his wife was still in school and worked part time), so he wasn’t making big bucks, and comparatively the underpayment amount was pretty large. He went to the local IRS office and they could not figure out the charge or why he had been charged it. They helped him refile, and suddenly he didn’t owe anything.
Next year they pulled a similar stunt making him jump through hoops to claim his refund. Sent him extra paperwork to file in order to claim his refund, and when, according to them (the IRS), he didn’t send the paperwork in time, they said they weren’t going to send him the refund. They did eventually send it. But my husband and I couldn’t figure out why they were hassling a young married couple, with relatively low incomes and filing a 1040 EZ...two years in a row.
He is conservative and supported many conservative causes. Not sure if it was coincidental, but makes one go “hmmm.”
I was audited this last year after my brother ran for the US Senate out of Virginia in the Tea Party, then in the Republican Primary. I might have $1k-$4k in expendable income each year after paying bills, medical expenses, and repair bills. I overpay withholding to make sure they have their take and have a decent amount returned, which simply pays off credit bills en full.
They were just fishing, and probably some statistic somewhere triggered the audit. I gave them an accounting and sent them a box of records and even wrote them a check for a little over $100 just to cover possible different interpretations on some claimed items. Depending on how one did their accounting, they could have owed me about $1500 or I owed them about $100. I usually error on the side of giving them the benefit of the doubt to play it safe.
They ended up returning my payment and said they found no problems. Of course the timing of the audit really screwed up some professional proceedings I had been engaged in for several years, but that’s life.
I don’t think it was triggered by our conservative beliefs, but recent events has given me cause to pause.
Interesting observation...the underpayment they claimed our son owed was $700. I noticed in a couple other posts that the amount the IRS claimed in underpayment was $700. Another fact that makes me to “hmmmm.”
Fascinating.
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