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t walgamuth · #23 10-05-2010, 07:28 AM

I have had a similar problem with the irs. One year I filed my taxes late but over paid them because of an error in their favor. Later I discovered the error and filed a corrected return. I was due (lets say) about 600 back. When I got the refund it was only for (lets say) 450. I called them and said what gives? They say you owed penalty and interest. I said "Wait, because I thought I owed you the money (but never actually did) I owe you penalty and interest on it anyway?" They said yes.

I thought $crew you.

Another time they credited my payment to a wrong account and started dunning me for it but had the wrong account number. EAch time I would respond that that was not my account number. After the third time they dunned me I called and finally they figured out that they had assigned me a new id number for no reason. They refused to give me back my old number and insisted I owed them interest because it was late. I went to my accountant about it and he said that I was right but it would probably cost me more to pay him to straighten it out than it was worth so I should just forget about it.

GRRRRRR!

Hattie, my advice going forward is to pay enough in so that you always get a refund. I have never had them lose a check coming my way.

Just forget fighting them about something rather small like this. It is an exercise in futiity. You cannot "teach them a lesson". Nobody cares.

Now if you owed them a half mil you could negotiate it with them and probably get off for a lot less....but if you owed them that much you would probably have a lot worse problems than the IRS!