IRS Bureacrats

IRS Bureacrats

Today I received a request from the Tax Advocate that, in essence, asks me to refile my 2001 return in hard copy, but to the Tax Advocate, not the IRS. Plus an apology for any inconvenience that this is causing me. This is so ludicrous that I may not be able to stop laughing long enough to comply for a few days. The very thing I filed electronically to avoid is now being done. I suspect that some klutz deleted my file and was too ashamed to admit it. If I had been told a year ago it would have been merely inconvenient, now it is hilarious.

The writing of this message was delayed due to periodic hysterical laughter.

Chapter 2

Another message from the same taxpayer to the IRS in response to this request:

Mr. Nash please submit an estimate of your annual income for 2005.

Dear IRS:

I get paid by the hour and am On Call, it is not possible for me to estimate how many hours I will work in a year, nor to estimate how many hours will be at straight time and those that will be at time and a half. I would have a better chance of guessing the numbers for the Lottery.

So, I added up my pay stubs to date, divided by the number of weeks and used that to project the annual wage for 2005. I figured that it couldn't be any further off than my estimate for 2003, about $7,000, short.