Taxes

I feel like the IRS is full of morons. We recently bought our first house with our VA loan, and are supposed to get the full $8,000 tax refund for it along with our normal taxes. We filed the first week of February (certified mail, they received it Feb. 3rd), so we expected maybe middle of April to get our refund (gave them more time then usual, usually takes about 2 weeks online).

Well, apparently not! It is not the middle of MAY and still no taxes back. We have called them numerous times and apparently they are all retarded there. First time we called apparently we didn't know our own address. We gave them the appartment address that we lived in before, and then we gave them our new address (which was filed on our taxes - duh!)...but apparently we lived somewhere else in this state that we don't know about. The IRS apparently knows where we lived better then we do. Fucking idiots.

So after we cleared that up with that moron, we called back the next day to try to speak to someone with at least 2 brain cells. We struck gold. I don't recall her name, but she was fucking awesome and did her job like she's supposed to do. Apparently the reason for the hold up is because we didn't sign one sheet of paper in all of that paperwork we sent (uh, no we signed it all and had EVERY page notorized - but we did fax back the signed paper and notorized it again jic). We think they were just trying to buy more time to get their heads out of their asses.

So after she changed our address and wrote a note in our file that whoever wrote that down was a fucking moron - she told us our tax due date is now May 15th. WHAT?! Yes, that was my fucking reaction. My hubby, who is a saint with tons of paitence, freaked the hell out. He said that we've been waiting well over 2 months already, and now you want us to wait till 3 or 4 months pass??? Yes, apparently they do.

Now that the 15th is coming up, we are very anxious for our money. Half the year has gone by already. We decided that if we don't have our money by Monday, May 17th, that we are going to call a tax advocate (or my aunt who is a district attorney). Apparently we couldn't use one before because of the "new" deadline that has changed about 6 times.

Half the year has gone by already and we still don't have our money. We can still pay our bills off, we just want our money. After this, I'm tempted to stop paying our taxes. Illegal, I know, but what the fuck is with all this hassle? We've never had this problem before.

Besides the fact that this was a great solution to fix the housing market, a lot of buyers are actually going through the same problem we are. How the hell are we all going to handle universal healthcare (etc) if the government can't even do our fucking taxes right? Shouldn't they be fixing things that are already broke?

I mean, seriously, why the fuck do we have this long of a delay? We're owed over $15,000. That is too much money to sit there and go "hey, you're gonna wait 3 years to get it". I'm sorry, but you don't do that shit and when someone fucks with people's money they get NASTY.

They need to take a serious look at all the fucking morons that work for the IRS and fire their asses for doing this shit to people. There are people out there have waited 2 years for their taxes, and are still having problems. What a fucking joke!

I know that when you file for taxes that you really shouldn't expect that money too soon. I know that. But going on what? 4-5 months? Half the year gone already, what the fuck have they been doing? It is a VERY good thing that we decided NOT to rely on our taxes getting back on time.

We actually saw this coming before we even filed and stocked up our savings just in case we came across some bill we accidentally forget to pay. Guess what. Around tax time T-Mobile closes all accounts that have been cancelled and sells them to debt collectors. We only have like $100.00 on it, but shit that's stupid especially since we were paying them. Good thing we know how those people work. We made sure we could pay off our debts without the taxes.

But that doesn't mean we are better then anyone else. That means that quite honestly, you can't rely on the government. Some people REALLY need their taxes. I want MY money! I don't think that it's fucking right the way shit is going down. Do these morons even realize that some people relied on getting their taxes in at least 2 months, and without it they are sinking even worse.

This is making this depression even worse. Imagine if you were a single mother and filed your taxes, hoping to use that money for rent. You'd be fucked and that's how I fucking feel right now.

Fuck the IRS.