| Monday, April 11, 2005 |
20:27 - Stop Stealing My Money, You Thieving Government*
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What wonder should I behold upon opening my online bank statement today but that my federal tax return check, written in the amount of $489 and spelled out in longhand as well and proper, had been cashed by the IRS in the amount of $989.
This coming on top of having to pay no less than $3400 combined federal and state estimated payments on the advance for the current book (from which nothing was withheld, and all of which I received in the first quarter, and they don't allow you to spread it out over the whole year) made for an ugly-looking number in my checking account, with a little horizontal line in front of it. Not pleasing to me was any of this.
Oh, I called up the bank and had them put things right. I acknowledge that my 4's sort of look like 9's. But you'd think the IRS would check the longhand version of numbers like this, to avoid "understandable" errors that somehow always fall in their favor...?
...Oh. Right. What was I thinking?
* Apologies to Frank J.
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Brian Tiemann
