(My imaginary letter to the IRS)
Dear IRS....
Enclosed please find the answers to your most recent request for the same information I submitted last December. I fully expect that there will be some sort of crisis over the fact that we have now 'double' submitted our corrected 1040 x for 2008 and hope that this doesn't trigger yet another request for the same information a third time.
Unfortunately, the material you requested didn't fit in the legal sized envelope you provided so I taped it to the front of a large mailing envelope...I suspect that your location isn't prepared to open such large envelopes and so it will be forwarded on to another IRS location where the 'large envelope' department will open it, separate the pages and send them off to respective parties who will each receive one piece of the puzzle.
In the ensuing chaos I will either receive a new letter requesting information from each department (because I didn't provide completed documentation) OR perhaps receive a more personal phone call. Don't be concerned if I burst into tears over your call...it has taken a mighty frustrating tax year to make me NOT want to talk to you. After all - I love taxes - but this time around it's just not fun....and I may not be very understandable through my sobs.
Perhaps your caller will then decide that my real problem is not that I am frustrated beyond words .....but maybe I am not a native English speaker and cheerfully refer me to the 30 minute wait line for a specialist in a particular language that sounds like a sobbing-hysterical- mom to 11- and then you can reissue all of the letters you have sent me thus far translated into whatever you have pinpointed as the root issue.
Love to all of you -
The ex-tax loving mom who is thinking that even the bad days in urban ministry are nothing compared to this weekly interaction with you.
Dorothy
10 comments:
Love it!
Totally the type of letter I would write in my head ... but never get to mail.
Hope they can straighten out this whole tax mess soon, for you and everyone else that was expecting our government to refund the money that the new tax code promised.
Oh yes ... governmental promises. Guess we can't always trust them.
Laurel
So sorry you are going though all of this frustration. I hope you really did send that letter.
Blessings,
Dawn
Oh, how frustrating this must be!
Our tax preparer friend advised us to file our taxes electronically via turbo tax, then file an amendment for our adoption tax credit. Which we did and have now received both our federal and state returns. Tomorrow I will be, Lord willing, mailing our amendment with our 8839. Our friend advised us to do this since the IRS is confused from within on the 8839 and the long wait for the returns when filed by paper. While we only had one adoption finalized in 2010 and the relatively small expenses of $1,000, we hope not to be hung up in IRS channels with the amendment. I have been reading your wonderful experiences with the IRS and have decided to add a copy of our canceled check to our attorney along with our receipt from our attorney with our amendment papers. So, I say this to encourage you as your experiences are not in vain. We are all learning from you and hopefully we will file our 8839 like a fresh breeze coming off the ocean!?! Hey, I can dream, can't I!!!??
Laughing hysterically...but crying with you too :) You are one funny mom...praying you see that refund soon as I know you need it more than most of us do!!
You are not alone. We are being targeted also, from our last 2 adoptions from 2007 & 2008. This is SO stressful, and plain ridiculous at the same time.
Got my regular portion of our refund. But the letter about more information needed is coming for the adoption portion. Will be very interesting since we adopted through state foster care - special needs. I have nothing else to send than what we already sent.
I've been following your IRS "saga" as I have had a bit of a saga myself. I am encouraging all a-parents filing for the ATC who have run into issues to file a complaint with the Taxpayer Advocate. If all of this extra information were to be part of the new ATC rules that should have been stated 1: when the changes were made via The Affordable Care Act and 2: in the new filing requirements. They can't just change the rules mid-game because they have no money to pay or are backlogged.
The form is here: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f911.pdf
Also, contact your local congressperson. ;) GL!
our carryover was deposited! i hope the rest of you don't have to wait too long!
We haven't filed yet but are anticipating problems. I thought I would share this link with you and your readers.
NACAC is trying to collect and info and help.
http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/Adoption-Facts/Adoption-tax-credit-update
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