That second meme is spot on! One year I kept waiting and waiting for my refund until I finally called the IRS to see what was going on. They said the amount I listed for the quarterly estimated payments I made throughout the year was not correct. I don’t remember what the exact amounts were but as an example: I put 6200. Which was incorrect. I had actually paid 8400.
So I listed less than what I actually already paid so they held up my refund. They didn’t send me a letter or give me a call or anything.
And while on the phone, they would not tell me how much I had actually paid. What the correct amount was. I had to go through my checking account and figure out what payments were for what year and come up with the correct amount myself. All while I was on the phone with them. They wouldn’t tell me what the correct amount was until I told them.
We found an error of a refund not delivered (2015) in my father's tax records.
Hubbs and I are doing the estate. That was a hectic year for my dad, anyway,. No they will not send it now.... too late, I think you have 5 years to claim refunds. What turds
A few years ago I had a tax prepayment that I was directing the IRS to carry over to the next year. I had sent in a paper 1040, so some dreg in the IRS had to manually enter the info, I'm guessing. That person entered my carryover onto the wrong line and listed it as a refund rather than a carryover, which meant that one day I got the money as a refund check. That would mess up things for the next year, so I called and talked to countless people trying to get them to fix THEIR accounting error. It was really a difficult thing for them, really really difficult, Mount Everest to fix. One person told me he could see the exact error they had made, but he wasn't authorized to fix it and it had to go to some other dreg in the system. This tiny little error took over TWO years and a lot of phone calls from my end to fix.
That second meme is spot on! One year I kept waiting and waiting for my refund until I finally called the IRS to see what was going on. They said the amount I listed for the quarterly estimated payments I made throughout the year was not correct. I don’t remember what the exact amounts were but as an example: I put 6200. Which was incorrect. I had actually paid 8400.
So I listed less than what I actually already paid so they held up my refund. They didn’t send me a letter or give me a call or anything.
And while on the phone, they would not tell me how much I had actually paid. What the correct amount was. I had to go through my checking account and figure out what payments were for what year and come up with the correct amount myself. All while I was on the phone with them. They wouldn’t tell me what the correct amount was until I told them.
So ridiculous!
that is ridiculous.
We found an error of a refund not delivered (2015) in my father's tax records.
Hubbs and I are doing the estate. That was a hectic year for my dad, anyway,. No they will not send it now.... too late, I think you have 5 years to claim refunds. What turds
Oh, edited to add, the amount was $7000
A few years ago I had a tax prepayment that I was directing the IRS to carry over to the next year. I had sent in a paper 1040, so some dreg in the IRS had to manually enter the info, I'm guessing. That person entered my carryover onto the wrong line and listed it as a refund rather than a carryover, which meant that one day I got the money as a refund check. That would mess up things for the next year, so I called and talked to countless people trying to get them to fix THEIR accounting error. It was really a difficult thing for them, really really difficult, Mount Everest to fix. One person told me he could see the exact error they had made, but he wasn't authorized to fix it and it had to go to some other dreg in the system. This tiny little error took over TWO years and a lot of phone calls from my end to fix.
Double ugh...🤕
UGH! 😖