The IRS sent me and my hubby a check for a nice chunk of change. There was nothing in the envelope with the check. There was no message on the check. Just PAY TO THE ORDER OF Houseman and Biggirl from the United States Treasury.
We are frightened of it. We have put it into a box made of the same material that airplane black boxes are made out of and buried it under the floorboards. We have asked the children if they have called Homeland Security recently with the goods on Ralph Nader or Al Sharpton. We have thrown holy water on it.
I can hear it now. . . calling from the floor boards Au–dit. AAAAUUUUUDDDIIIIIITTTT.
We will be calling the IRS. We’ll take a few survival supplies with us for the long wait-- some water, maybe some MREs. Wish us luck.
Oh, didn’t you hear? The gov’t is going to send random check to random people as a gesture of good will and love! I’m surprised you didn’t get the memo!
I hear everybody gets a $1000 check from the govt once you have posted over 4800 times on the SDMB.
Ask FairyChatMom.
She bought a chain saw with her money.
Ya know what’s even scarier? When you check your balance from the ATM, hoping that there’s going to be enough in there to buy some groceries and stuff, and finding that there’s a couple thousand dollars more than you expected. The good ol’ IRS making a stealthy direct deposit.
Know what this dumbshit did? Wrote out the first check back 4/14 to the IRS or something and then saw it was to be addressed to the treasury so we wrote out another and somehow both were sent in and cashed. Where’s the heady smacky thingey? The first 4k was bad enough but then I loaned them another 4k and am still waiting for my reimbursement.
Why does the IRS insist on you paying every single cent of interest when you’re late, but they won’t pay any at all when they are late paying you back?
Funny IRS story. In December, I went to Florida, and while I was there visited my grandmother, whom I haven’t seen in years, and is slowly forgetting 95% of the details of her life. So, while we were catching up (at least 8 times during the visit), she pulled out her wallet, and showed me a tax refund check for $95. “I don’t know where this came from, but someone sent me almost a hundred dollars!” She’s been out of work for at least 50 years, and my grandfather died about 10 years ago. Since then, she’s lived off his pension and/or social security. So her refund was from SS or whatever. I tried explaining the refund concept, but she was convinced someone in Austin, Texas really liked her, and wanted to send her money. It was dated June 7th or something. She’d had this check for over 6 months, and had been afraid to cash it. So I took her to the bank, and the tellers were trying not to laugh as she quized them on the “hidden catches” of the money.
She’s still convinced she won a prize of some sort.
Be careful Biggirl. The year before last my parents got a letter and check from the IRS in the summer, explaining that they’d done a random audit, and found an error in their favor. My parents were pleased by the unexpected winfall. Until they got another letter months later explaining that they’d made an error, so my parents now owed that check plus interest. You really should call the IRS and make sure they didn’t make a “mistake” if this is unexpected: and get it in writng.
I wonder if the IRS makes occasional “mistakes” as a moneymaking scheme?
“If we put this taxpayer money in the bank, we’ll make 2% interest…but if we send it to someone and then ‘discover’ our error a year later, we can charge them 5% interest! Mwahaha!”