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Article #188: Doh! IRS Loses Taxes In San Francisco Bay

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On September 23, 2005, the Internal may have been lost.
Revenue Service began sending notices to Who knew the IRS used monster trucks?
tax payers in thirteen states that there Instead of "Grave Digger", the truck must
may be a problem with their tax payments. have been called "Every last penny you
Here is the scoop. have Digger."
Traffic School? Anyway, taxpayers located in Alaska,
It seems one of the trucks carrying the Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho,
payments was involved in a traffic Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Utah,
accident and the payments were lost. The Virginia, Washington and Wyoming may have
accident actually occurred in San Mateo, seen there tax payments deep sixed. In a
California and resulted in...wait, I have particularly cheeky announcement, the IRS
to stop laughing. Okay. Deep breathe. The wishes to assure taxpayers that it will
tax documents were "ejected into the bay" help make sure the tax snafu is fixed up.
and can't be recovered! There must be a Anyone up for a dive?
couple of great white sharks wondering Check Your Debits
what is going on. If you think you might be a victim of the
The payments in question are estimated IRS traffic accident, just check any
tax payments made by anyone to the San estimated tax payments made to see if
Francisco mail box for the IRS in the processing occurred. If all else fails,
first few weeks of September. Yes, the rest assured the IRS will let you know if
IRS uses drop mail boxes like everyone there is a problem.
else. How encouraging. While the above article may seem like a
The little traffic snafu suffered by the bad Saturday Night Live skit, it is real.
IRS apparently wasn't so little. The I can't wait to see the next notice from
service is reporting that as many as the IRS about an agent's dog eating
30,000 estimated tax payments from 50,000 or so tax returns.
individuals and businesses in 13 states






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