Community Chat

[september]

I got a multi-page letter today, saying they owe me a whopping $10.

They will send me a check in 4-6 weeks, which will probably also contain a lot of paperwork.

With manpower, postal costs, materials, etc.....I feel like I should tell them to just keep it! The cost of them returning this pittance to me far outweighs the value of me getting $10 back.

But on the other hand, I know if I owed them $10, they would spare no expense in getting me to pay up, so I guess this is just one of those things.....I just hate to see $$$ wasted this way.

[occasionalrain]

You can call them and have the $10 applied to your 2014 income tax that way they won't have to send you the check.

[september]

I guess I could, occasional rain, but that might even include more manpower costs, because then they'd have to go back and change what they're already planning on doing! There is just too much red tape.

[occasionalrain]

On 5/8/2014 september said:

I guess I could, occasional rain, but that might even include more manpower costs, because then they'd have to go back and change what they're already planning on doing! There is just too much red tape.

That's true. Didn't we have a government policy enacted to reduce paper usage several years ago? If we handled our finances like the government does we'd all be living in cardboard boxes.

[september]

I don't think they're reducing paperwork, by first sending out a letter, saying they plan on sending me a refund. Why not just send out the explanation + the refund check in one mailing?

[Shorty2U]

At least its 10 bucks.lol. I made a decimal mistake (yes I do taxes on paper yet), and they TOOK 200 BACK from us out of the measly nothing we already get. We don't get much back because A. I have money that's taxable each year so we don't get a lot even though my DH pays IN a fortune. And B. our home is soon paid off (well in 10 years), so it no longer pays us to go the long way anymore.

[september]

Shorty, I'd love to get back to a point where I could do my own taxes. I paid what the accountants said to pay, and I have to admit they came quite close to estimating the correct amount.

I won't tell them they were off by $10!

[ennui1]

First time I've seen someone complain about a refund.

If the grocery store gave you $10, you'd be happy.

[voyager1980]

Googled it::: Paperwork Reduction Act was enacted in 1980 & just updated a couple times in later years (:

[kivah]

$10 is nothing. Think about the tens of millions that the IRS mails out to scammers. That bothers me!!!!