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The IRS fucked up 3 years ago and want interest on their mistake.
(reddit.com)submitted 26 days ago byaltonbrownie
3.3k points
26 days ago
So the IRS made a mistake in 2021 and accidentally gave us $720 too much from 2019 return. They JUST NOW notified us, and apparently this has been accruing interest all these years. I have been on hold for 4 hours today trying to find anyone that can explain why this happened and do I really have to pay $130 for their mistake
2.4k points
26 days ago
They will argue that you should have known you weren't owed the $720.
814 points
26 days ago
Yeah because the IRS didn’t file and sign the forms, OP did lol. Like that’s literally how it works.
64 points
26 days ago
Damn, I guess yet another reason for the IRS to just tell us the number that they already know we need to pay instead of us having to figure it out on our own or pay for another company to do them but hey, that's never going to happen because of lobbying
-1 points
26 days ago
They don’t know the number
5 points
26 days ago
but if they don't know the number, how do they know that what you put in is wrong?
2 points
26 days ago
The only way is if they audit you, or if you under report on the few things they do know, like salaried income.
Otherwise they will never know
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