Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Nah. I did those like last year. Or something. I forget. Does anyone actually pay attention to that stuff anyway?
Pay attention to when you tell us about defrauding the government? Well, yeah.
First off, I was joking. Secondly, if by "defrauding the government", you mean having the IRS think you earned more money than you did because your brokerage firm double reported a sale, claim you owned them back taxes because of this, filing additional paperwork showing that it was an error in the reporting and not in the filing, having the IRS basically say "pay us what we think you owe us anyway", paying them, then waiting a year and a half for them to process the correction, realize that you did actually pay the correct amount in the first place, and then pay you the difference (with interest, which they promptly made sure to issue a 1099 for), yeah... I "defrauded the government".
I get that I may not have explained what happened super clearly the first time, and folks desires to leap on the "gbaji doesn't pay his fair share!" angle tended to overpower any explanations I could make after the fact, but at no point *ever* did I defraud anyone. It was a mistake made (I'm reasonably certain) by a brokerage firm I had at the time, which caused a series of events to occur which ultimately caused me to have to
massively overpay the government (to the tune of $100k) just to get them to stop trying to seize assets of mine, whilst they straightened the whole thing out. In the end, I was able to prove that the mistake was not on my end, and that I had paid the correct amount. Cause they paid me all the money back, with interest.
When you defraud the IRS, they tend to put you in jail, not write you a $102k check.
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Just what head trauma made you lose your memory recently?
Who are you again?
Oh hey! Grats Kao!
Edited, Apr 11th 2014 6:37pm by gbaji