Is it just me, or is the IRS Where’s My Refund? website the most useless piece of shit that’s ever been put on the web by a government agency? I’ve tried to use it at least five times in the last week (I filed electronically two weeks ago) and haven’t ONCE been able to actually have them tell me anything. ANYTHING! Every time I either get “We are unable to retrieve your information” or “This site is unavailable. Please try later.”
If you are a government agency with personal financial information that people are going to want to see, and IF you set up a website so that people can see that financial information, is it too much to ask that you set the site up so that people actually CAN see that information? Or is that asking too much from the IRS?
I want to know when I’m getting my money back, dammit!
Haha, you’re cute. Of course it’s too much for the IRS, silly. Keeping track of anything that isn’t of direct benefit to them is too much for the IRS.
Did you ask them to direct deposit the money into your account or are you waiting for a check? You filed nice and early, so either way it should be fairly quickly. Unless there was a hold up with your return, that is. So if you don’t see that refund soon, you might want to call and see what happened.
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Haha, you’re cute. Of course it’s too much for the IRS, silly. Keeping track of anything that isn’t of direct benefit to them is too much for the IRS.
Did you ask them to direct deposit the money into your account or are you waiting for a check? You filed nice and early, so either way it should be fairly quickly. Unless there was a hold up with your return, that is. So if you don’t see that refund soon, you might want to call and see what happened.
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It was direct deposit. I’m not really in a desperate situation for it, I’m just impatient…
There shouldn’t have been any problems. I filed (as always) the EZ, with no deductions past the standard ones.
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It was direct deposit. I’m not really in a desperate situation for it, I’m just impatient…
There shouldn’t have been any problems. I filed (as always) the EZ, with no deductions past the standard ones.
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Perhaps… :dubious: your papers are not in order
EZ…sheesh, the good old days.
I’m sure I am far from the most tax paperwork burdened doper being self employed and having rental property…
Schedule C is my current mistress…shes getting more time than my wife lately
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I dunno, there’s something weird about asking for more of my taxes to go to the organization that collects my taxes.
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Its not really YOUR taxes that are at stake. There are billions of dollars of uncollected taxes (on the order of 350 billion) that are not collected due to inadequate funding of the IRS. You are merely the low hanging fruit and it is almost impossible to cheat on your taxes if you are a wage earner.
If you look at the projected costs of the Bush tax cuts, they exceed the projected shortfall in medicare and social security. When this administration fires half the people who collect estate taxes, that is an end run around the estate tax laws. They throw you a few bones to get you on their side but when it comes to paying off the national debt you will carry more of the burden than your share of those tax cuts.
Everyone knows that the IRS needs more funding but noone wants to stand up and support it. Its easy to beat up on the IRS, its not so easy to make government work without the money that the IRS collects.
