Well screw you, Internal Revenue Service

[Dreadnaught]

So the IRS just recently bought a computer and they put it to work comparing 1099s submitted from stock brokerages with declared dividend income.

It turns out my accountant forgot to declare any dividend income from the year I bought my apartment. So I legitimately owe a few hundred dollars.

Fine, that's fair. So now I'm sitting here writing the check and filling-out the IRS form stating that they are right and I will pay. But the form. Doesn't. Fit. In. The envelope they provided.

This is some kind of dystopian government nightmare. I want to pay the taxes I owe, but the fracking piece of paper they asked me to fill out won't fit in the envelope they provided.

WTF.

[Angel_Mapper]

At least it wasn't a 27B/6.

[Nessus]

Paper folds? Or is that verboten

[Bitter Jeweler]

This thread. It is a let down.

[Hazir]

It fuels the suspicion of a rule 12 violation? And anyway, blame everybody for that. You americans should have switched over long ago to Din norms. It would have made life for everybody a lot easier.

[RandBlade]

This thread. It is a let down.

Yeah, fold the paper Dread

Sucks about your accountants mess.

[Ziggy Stardust]

I demand pictures.

[GGT]

Are you sure the "form" wasn't printed out by your accountant? The same guy who fucked up in the first place?

[Dreadnaught]

Not rule 12. And it's an official IRS form. Folding isn't possible, that's the thing.

The envelope has a clear window. The form being filled-out is has the destination address at the IRS, and it's supposed to be inserted so that the destination address on the form shows through the address window in the envelope.

The form came double-folded, but when I inserted it with the default folds, it stuck out of the envelope. I then realized the folds were not even, so I re-folded it. Except now the address doesn't show through the window.

So trying some folding gymnastics. Right now I have it folded four times over —*unevenly —*so that it fits in the envelope and has the address showing through the window.

***

While we're on it, the bureaucrats at the IRS demand that I annotate the check with:

1) "Tax year ####".
2) A 6 character alpha numerical code.
3) My social security number.
4) My telephone number.

Who the hell can fit all that into the memo section fo a check?

[Nessus]

Wait wait wait

Your government accepts checks?

[EyeKhan]

So the IRS just recently bought a computer and they put it to work comparing 1099s submitted from stock brokerages with declared dividend income.

It turns out my accountant forgot to declare any dividend income from the year I bought my apartment. So I legitimately owe a few hundred dollars.

Fine, that's fair. So now I'm sitting here writing the check and filling-out the IRS form stating that they are right and I will pay. But the form. Doesn't. Fit. In. The envelope they provided.

This is some kind of dystopian government nightmare. I want to pay the taxes I owe, but the fracking piece of paper they asked me to fill out won't fit in the envelope they provided.

WTF.

Fold it.

And weren't we going to keep the f-bomb out of thread titles, Mr. Mod?

[Illusions]

Wait wait wait

Your government accepts checks?

We can pay taxes online also.

[EyeKhan]

We can pay taxes on a payment plan, paying the government interest.

[littlelolligagged]

Fold it.

And weren't we going to keep the f-bomb out of thread titles, Mr. Mod?

Are you in elementary school?

F-bomb.

[RandBlade]

Is the phrase "f-bomb" necessary. Though adjusted it.

[EyeKhan]

Are you in elementary school?

F-bomb.

Is the phrase "f-bomb" necessary. Though adjusted it.

I didn't realize "f-bomb" was a kiddie phrase.

[Bitter Jeweler]

This thread. It now delivers.

[littlelolligagged]

I didn't realize "f-bomb" was a kiddie phrase.

The more you know... and shooting star.

*sigh* I spent rather more time than I care to admit looking for a clip of that scene from Will and Grace.

I can tell you now that it is season 8 episode 1, though.

[EyeKhan]

I've never seen a single episode. What is it like?

[littlelolligagged]

I find it funny, and sweet - but it plays very heavily on stereotypes. Rettib and I had a discussion about this many moons ago, in the RCT IRC channel.

Damn, that's been years and years ago.

[Bitter Jeweler]

I find it funny, and sweet - but it plays very heavily on stereotypes. Rettib and I had a discussion about this many moons ago, in the RCT IRC channel.

Damn, that's been years and years ago.

Yeah, I remember that. You were really young then. Now you're old.

[littlelolligagged]

Yeah, I remember that. You were really young then. Now you're old.

How can that be, when I haven't aged a day?

Sailorboy will show you the error of your ways, Sunshine.

[']['ear]

Dread, didn't you have a liberal friend who complained about this on Facebook?

[Dreadnaught]

Dread, didn't you have a liberal friend who complained about this on Facebook?

About being audited and not having the response form fit in the provided envelope?

[Flixy]

It's a bit stupid of them to mess up, but how hard is it to fold a form so that it fits and you can still read the address?

I will probably get a letter from our IRS asking me for money too. I should have to pay some taxes this year, but I never received a letter asking me to, while they have all my info. Next year I will almost certainly be getting money back from them, at which point they will probably ask me for this year's taxes, which is fine by me. Of course, if they forget to ask for 5 years, I think they can't ask for it anymore

[Dreadnaught]

The problem is if I fold the paper so the address shows through the window, the form slides around in the envelope and I worried it would slide around. Eventually I just found a way where it felt reasonably stable.

Wait, so you don't pay taxes unless someone asks you directly? That's neat!

[Illusions]

The problem is if I fold the paper so the address shows through the window, the form slides around in the envelope and I worried it would slide around. Eventually I just found a way where it felt reasonably stable.

Theres no rule that says paper has to be folder in halves or thirds you know...

[GGT]

That happens all the time with my Met Ed bill. The perforation is off, and it won't fit in the windowed envelope, so the pre-printed address doesn't show right. I just use one of my own business-size envelopes instead and *gasp* write out the address. Sometimes I save the Met Ed envelope and use it for personal mail, or scrap notes.

What's stupid is the IRS (or a business) sending us special envelopes to pay our bills.

[Being]

What's stupid is the IRS (or a business) sending us special envelopes to pay our bills.

I hear that. The envelope is the cheapest part of snail-mail.

[EyeKhan]

What's stupid is the IRS (or a business) sending us special envelopes to pay our bills.

What's stupid is paying our bills via snail mail. You do that?