Be Careful What You Ask For

More News of the Weird:

In December, a self-employed market analyst in Chimacum, Wash., requested from the Internal Revenue Service a copy of the 2003 Form 1040 and instructions so he could revise an old tax return. Three weeks later, he received instead two shipments totaling 48,000 copies of 2005 Form 1040 and instructions.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just download it from the IRS web site?

[Source: Arizona Daily Star]

Published on March 9th, 2006 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Humor, Taxes
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  1. I think it would take a long time to download and print 48,000 2005 forms!! ;-)

    Comment by charles — Mar 9th 2006 @ 2:59 pm
  2. Nice. I’m glad the IRS is making such great use of our tax dollars. Sounds like the IRS is the only reason the postal service is still around!

    Comment by Ian — Mar 9th 2006 @ 4:07 pm

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