David got our taxes done yesterday. As soon as January 1st hits, he's bouncing around on me like a kid high on pixie sticks wanting me to make an appointment with the accountant. He prints all his tax stuff off of his work website, has it all set by the door and is all anxious and antsy waiting for tax day. Well, yesterday that day came. He went, he came home..All was good. We also had yummy burgers for dinner, but I digress.
Anyways, today, a lady from the accountants office calls. She asks if she can speak to David. No. David is at work. Can she speak to him tomorrow. Well, that's a little difficult seeing as how David doesn't get home from work until almost 4AM, and is in bed until 45 minutes before he has to leave. She then tells me that they had a little trouble with my social security number. It had already been used to file taxes in the state of Minnesota. David works in Minnesota. We live in Wisconsin. As soon as she said that, my heart kind of sputtered and my brain kinda does that thing where it deflates and all that comes out of your mouth is, 'But I, but I, but..I..Well..Wait...I...What?" Yeah..Fun stuff. So, then I start freaking out, thinking, "Oh no. Someone STOLE my SSN. Someone out there is using my info!!! SOMEONE IS ME!!" Then, I calmed myself down, and asked if there was someone I could call to figure all this out. They gave me a number for the Minnesota Revenue people. I called them, and was totally surprised to get a real person on the phone, who was very pleasant. So, Judy in Minnesota working for the revenue people, thanks. Once I explained my situation, she looked everything up, and turns out our tax guy tried to e-file out stuff, TWICE, which was why my SSN was blocked. Someone isn't me. There is no body snatched. There was just a misunderstanding.
So, I call back the tax place to tell them what happened, and give them the times that everything went through on the revenue end. The lady at the tax place was all impressed with my super fabulous detective skills. I was all, "Yeah, I know, I could totally be the next Jessica Landsbury and do it up Murder She Wrote style." OK, so I didn't really say that, but you get the idea.
So, my SSN is safe, our taxes are safe, and life is back to "normal".
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I would have thought the same things "oh my god someone stole my identity....this is going to suck!" Glad it all worked out!
I was audited last year - and because of a mistake in my paper work for the year they were audting ( which, mind you, someone from the tax department was responsible for ) i owed the Australian Tax Office money.
Which i had been saving for when my baby arrived.
The tax people are douches. But hey, at least nobody is out there pretending to be you!
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