Nobody can screw things up as bad as the IRS.

[Speck Tater]

Believe it or not, this is my true experience with the IRS online payment system.

We've all bought things or paid bills online. We all know how it works. You enter your credit card or bank account information, wait a few seconds while it's verified, and then we are ready to make a payment. Smooth, trouble free, and relatively secure. And if we make a minor typo in entering one of the fields we get instant notification that the field needs to be corrected. What could be easier?

So here's how the IRS online payment system works. You enter all you information, just like a real online payment site, and then you are informed that you will recieve your PIN number for login by SNAIL MAIL!

Well, I guess that's not really terrible. I can wait a few days. But then what happens? TWO WEEKS LATER, I get a SNAIL MAIL telling me I made a typo in one of the fields I entered in the online form and I have to start the whole process all over again!

I think the government has a policy where anyone with an I.Q. above 75 is not eligible for employment. I can't believe how incredibly screwed up that system is. Two weeks to be notified by snail mail that I made a typo in filling out an online form? How could anyone possibly design a worse system than that? The mind just boggles. I tossed the whole thing in the trash and wrote them a regular paper check. Why did I think the government could actually do something right? I should have known better.

[ThingsGottaChange]

1. So, that was YOU I heard screaming from across the country!

Why is this so not hard to believe?!?!?!?!

[MindPilot]

2. Don't feel bad, they think I owe them $1.3 million in back taxes

If you total up everything I've made and will make in my entire life it wouldn't be that much, let alone enough to pay over a mil in taxes.

I'm having to pay a lawyer to fix it. :banghead:

[ComerPerro]

3. They're the morons? You're the one who fucked up.

[cami715]

4. Leave it to the IRS to mess things up!

I paid my taxes on time and in full in April. Then in late July, quite unexpectedly, I received a refund check from them with no explanation. I waited 4 weeks before I cashed it.
Then last week I received a notice that I had not paid all of my taxes for 2005 and that I owed them ( you guessed it) - the exact amount of the refund check PLUS a penalty and interest. How can they screw things up so much?
I sent them the amount of the check I had received and wrote that I would not pay the penalty and interest since this was obviously their mistake. No response yet. Probably having my phone wiretapped by now and they may have put me on the "no fly" list!

[sweetheart]

5. ROFLAO!!!

:rofl: cough :rofl: cough cough ha ha.. ha ha ha ha ha :rofl: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha :rofl: ha ha ha

I haven't laughed like that in years, very very funny, ha ha!!! oh, dear that is a riot, that cheers me up,
really, it shows the true levels of competence that the system has come to, as it grinds its way in to
the ground for a slow collapse like the USSR, too many factories making left shoes and sending out letters
with internet error messages.