Then just for fun I opened up an envelope from the IRS that had been sitting in a folder for several weeks now. (Honestly, it appeared to be the usual tax forms they send me every year.) According to the letter I owe $1,900 in back taxes and interest for 2007. Psyche!
After much rifling through records, I found the mistake and it doesn't look like it was mine. And my accountant assured me it wasn't an uncommon issue and should be pretty easy to clear up. But it pretty much blew up most of my day, not to mention my anxiety quotient for at least another week.
I'm notorious for not opening letters, emails and other stuff that I don't feel like dealing with right away, but in the future I think I'm going to be sure to open anything from the IRS right away. My poor accountant only has 'til Wednesday to straighten this out, on top of his usual April 15 workload. Hopefully it won't cost me too many hundreds of dollars to save that $1,900 ...
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