Last year, for 2010, we sent in to the State of Arapaho our taxes and were due a refund of $314. We were late getting it in due to the federal government inexplicably doing a system update in October that rendered some necessary tax documentation inaccessible. I was informed that, as long as you’re talking refunds, it didn’t matter that you were late. Now, it took the IRS a while and several phone calls to get us our money, but we got it.
As far as Arapaho is concerned, though, they don’t owe us anything. They had a record of the $314, but… simply did not feel obligated to pay it. Was that because we were late? They wouldn’t say. But they did not owe us the money, as far as they were concerned.
Last year, we owed Arapaho money. The $314 did not count towards what we owed Arapaho, because that money apparently went into an ether.
It resurfaced last week. Arapaho finally admitted that they had an outstanding debt to us of $314.
What changed their mind about this? They wanted to make sure – even though same documentation said that we may not have actually received it – that we paid taxes on this “income.”
Leave it to the Truman-Himmelreich household to somehow lose money on a tax refund.
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Greetings from Callie, Arapaho, a red town in a red state known for growing red meat. And from Redstone, Arapaho (Aw-RAH-pah-hoe), a blue city with blue collar roots that's been feeling blue for quite some time.
Nothing written on this site should be taken as strictly true, though if the author were making it all up rest assured the main character and his life would be a lot less unremarkable.
What exactly did they saw? I’m stymied. Prior to my joint filing days, I turned in refund returns late once or twice, and never had any objections about getting the money.
What exactly did they say? I’m stymied. Prior to my joint filing days, I turned in refund returns late once or twice, and never had any objections about getting the money.
Late as in the following year?
They simply said that they had a record of my return, and the fact that it should have resulted in a refund of $314, and they had no record of paying that money… but that they also had no record of owing me that money.
Until now.