I recently received a bill from the IRS. They said I had shorted them over $2,000.00 in 2014. They didn’t say exactly what I had done to short them they just sent me a bill. Well, I don’t have that kind of money laying around and if I did they are the very last on my list to give it to so I called them and inquired.
I was told the first person’s name and then they said a bunch of numbers. She could not help me so she sent me on to another person who was a man this time who told me his name and then a bunch of numbers. He didn’t tell me anything either so I asked to speak to a supervisor. They said there wasn’t one available and the supervisor would call me back in 48 hours. It has been over 48 hours now and I got no call back
This concerns me greatly. Are there no supervisors that work with the IRS or are the supervisors so dense that they don’t know that 48 hours constitutes two days? Furthermore they charged me interest and hadn’t even given me a chance to pay it, if I so decided to pay it. I explained to them that most business give what is called a grace period to pay off a balance. I got the bill on the 11th of January and the notice date was on the 18th of January, the due date was the 8th of February and it included $43.92 of interest. So they charge interest on a bill before the due date? Wow! That is some kind of business.
I sent it to my lawyer. I will call them again tomorrow and if I don’t get an answer I will contact my senator.
It is interesting that when the Republicans wasted their time putting through a worthless bill to repeal Obamacare because they knew it would be vetoed, the President responded with a very nice quote that they should be spending their time trying to make this country a better place for the middle class. Obama has been in office for close to eight years and if anything I feel more suffocated financially by Obamacare than anything the Republicans have done lately. So Mr. Obama, Sir, with great respect, I would ask you to take your own advice.
It would have been nice if you had not lived like a millionaire when you and your family was in office. Somehow seeing you and your wife go on so many lavish vacations tends to rile those of us that work for a living.
Man that sucks.. and YES, I agree with you. The middle class is getting smothered, and I am right there feeling the pinch along with you. Every time I see the multi million dollar vacations of the Obamas I seethe. – http://www.domesticgeekgirl.com
I think that every president has done a lot of traveling but most seem to do it on behalf of the country. I am not sure that that is the case with this President and his wife. I don’t know. I hate to judge but it does seem that have done very little for the middle class and quite a lot for themselves. Saying that, I think that this President was very needed at this time in civilization because he forced the issue of climate change to the forefront. He has done many things for the environment which will hopefully have lasting consequences of sustainability for our children.