Comments on: I’m an Idiot: 2007 Tax Edition

By: Kendra

Kendra — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:18:38 +0000

I’d have to agree with the feeling of wanting to strangle the person who came up with the phone system. I’m on the phone with the IRS/SSA and various state tax departments all the time. YUCK! I’m also one of those people, like Brent, who does not play with the system well….

You do not have to file by April 15th to get your economic stimulus check. For more information on the stimulus visit http://www.irs.gov and follow the link provided on their page.

By: brent

brent — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:50:57 +0000

I almost never play along with voice-prompter computer thingies on the telephone – I play the part of the daft “no speaka de english” old person and jabber things like “Person person person person” into the computer until they stop saying “I’m sorry I can’t make out what you’re saying, could you please repeat it” and start say “I’m having trouble making out your words, I’m going to put you through to an operator who can help you further.”

Also – with button operated ones I just push the hash key repeatedly until they work out that I’m not playing with their system and get through to a human.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:35:13 +0000

I hate doing taxes and the personal information is something I quickly go over. This shows me I should spend more time and make sure everything is right.

By: No Debt Plan

No Debt Plan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:47:20 +0000

Oof. I probably looked over our return 3-4 times to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. Our tax system is so complicated, it seems inevitable that you will miss something eventually.

Best of luck in getting it cleared up.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:08:13 +0000

Single Ma: I would still be filing by April 15th, but they wouldn’t process until after. But if I’m just correcting the regular 1040 I submitted at first, then it wouldn’t be an amended return. Luckily I don’t have any amounts to change, just the SSN.

By: Single Ma

Single Ma — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:43:54 +0000

8-12 weeks to process a correction? Whoa! I wonder how this will affect your $1200 stimulus check. I hear you have to file by Apr15 in order to get one.

By: moonimus

moonimus — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:32:25 +0000

Man that 1040x bug is going around these days.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:51:34 +0000

I’m glad you figured it out. It would be even worse if you weren’t pro-active.

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:27:58 +0000

I did the same thing a few years ago with my daughter’s ssn. I was able to fix it over the phone but I didn’t get my tax return til JUNE! What a pain.

By: Mr DebtBeater

Mr DebtBeater — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:16:16 +0000

I did this about 4-5 years ago and didn’t notice one of my kids’ SSN #s was reversing 2 digits the same way you did.

I’d used turbotax efile, and it came back a couple days later with the whole rejected message. The thing that surprised me about your situation was the amendment form. I just fixed my error and re-submitted and everything turned out OK for me. Though maybe I’m just forgetting and turbotax generated one automatically for me or something.

I tell you what though, I’ve quadruple-checked all the SSN #s every years since!