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But here's a little follow up of something long ago.
I wrote last year, June, that the income tax problems from my mom's estate - really it was about the tax withheld from her caregiver's checks - was resolved. And I got letters to that account and refund checks.
But this was zombie resolution and it came back this May. They Social Security records didn't match the IRS records. I'd sent all that information in once already, but I sent it again.
Today I got a new resolution letter.
I would remind people, as I did in the post last year, that a lot of the trouble here is due to continuous cuts to the IRS budget. They simply don't have the people to keep up with all this. And the people who get screwed are the small fry. The really rich guys and corporations have lawyers who can run circles around a tax bill forever. And that's true for all the other agencies that protect the public health, the environment, worker safety, and on and on and on. Corporations know if government isn't properly funded, regulators can't come out and regulate them. And they can get away with murder.
"No further action is needed by you at this time."
ReplyDeleteSigh. Doubtful whether increased funding would adjust insensitivity coded in that redundant, wearily ominous afterthought "...at this time".
A simple edit would go so far: No further action is needed by you.
Perhaps it escaped their thinking.