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Doh! IRS Loses Taxes In San Francisco Bay

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



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