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I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...
...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)
How the fuck did they avoid Texas that hard
one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method
"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way
"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well" way
talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip
I completely understand why lizards and snakes like to lay on nice warm rocks in the sunshine. They’re so right about that.
me: :(
spring birdies: peep peep
me: :)
fucking love when I'm on a call with someone and they start to do a little errand or go somewhere else and they say "and you're coming with me" like. absolutely I am let's go on an adventure I've been spirited away
im so happy i made all the correct choices that led to us meeting
its something like this i think
this one goes out to all you sickos on tumblr at 10 am on a monday
i support women's neutrals. i support when women just stand there and do nothing
If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.
this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious
For people with anxiety about filing taxes, here’s what things that happen when you make a mistake on your tax return:
- it gets corrected
- you get a letter in the mail either asking for some additional information or a letter showing the adjustment
- you pay the amount (there’s options for payment plans too!) or get a refund
Things that do not happen
- you’re “in trouble”
- you are charged with fraud
- you go to jail
I know that most people are probably just joking/exaggerating when they say a mistake on their return means they get thrown in jail but when I worked with the public I always would encounter people who believed that would happen and they would be panicking about it. So I like to put this out there every year because if I can even prevent one person from feeling that way, it’s worth it
Also the IRS will NEVER cold call you. If you get an upsetting phone call about your taxes it is a scam.
Hey, so, I work at the IRS, and this is not just accurate, it actively understates how much the IRS is willing to work with you.
Mistakes happen, and if you submit a paper return, a tax examiner (like me!) will check over your return to make sure numbers are on the right lines, forms are in the right order, and your return is complete. Sometimes that means we finish filling out forms for you, no joke. As long as you made a good faith effort, we do our best to help you.
We even do our best to help people who aren't filing in good faith, who are actively and blatantly trying to sneak something illegal by us. They get the same treatment as everyone else: we make sure entries are put on the right lines, we fix what forms we can, and adjust impossible deductions the same way we do with typos, even when it's really obvious a taxpayer is trying to sneak things by us.
There are very few circumstances where returns are taken out of our hands and routed to the serious, 'scary' departments, and believe me it is impossible to commit those kinds of fraud by accident. You have to go down some weird aggressive research rabbit holes to commit the kind of capital-F Fraud the IRS gets in a tizzy over.
Point is, the IRS is nowhere near as scary as you've been led to believe it is, and the folks that claim otherwise are either rich enough to have an agenda against the IRS, or they're vanishingly rare statistical outliers who fell through every crack and redundancy in the system.
As for the calling thing, @k-she-rambles is right, hoooo buddy the IRS will absolutely never ever cold call you, our accounts management people are so backed up that it's a miracle to get one on the line for taxpayers trying to call in. The only way I know of offhand that you're getting a legitimate call from the IRS is if you've received multiple forms in the mail and replied saying that it's okay for them to call you.
If you ever receive an alarming text, email or prerecorded message claiming to be from the IRS, that is a scammy scam scam, and you can and should report that via contact methods found at the IRS phishing reporting page here.
Bringing this back from last year, something I'd forgotten to say before is, if you're submitting a paper tax return, please, PLEASE, sign it.
If you're that afraid of numbers and you don't do anything else besides put your name and address at the top, if you sign the return, in person with ink on the paper, then include all your other tax documents, we can do everything else. You might not get every deduction you should, but we will do your return for you for free.
Since 2019, the signature line has always been on the second page, and there's a designated area specifically for signing. It's under a small print paragraph that starts, "Under penalty of perjury..." It will say SIGN HERE to the left of the signature lines.
Despite the clear indications that's where you're supposed to sign, I see at least a hundred returns a week where folks just straight up didn't do that.
If you don't sign your return, you don't just get a letter, you get the entire return back, and you don't get any credit for having filed until the return comes back to us with a signature in the right place. About a third of the time, the returns that do come back either aren't signed, or they're signed in the wrong place, and I can't fix that, even if there's a cranky letter.
Two important things I have learned dealing with the IRS:
1) If someone commits tax fraud in your name, and you have to call and fix it in order to file, the IRS staff is super helpful. They put me on an extension and everything. I now have to use an identity PIN every time I file, but that’s not a big deal.
2) If someone in your life dies, you are made executor of their estate and you find out they haven’t filed their federal taxes for ??? number of years, the IRS is surprisingly patient and chill about this. As long as you’re trying to eventually make it right they know it wasn’t your fault.
