So apparently we owe the IRS

I once got a bill for $.12. The stamp to mail the bill cost more than the amount due!

I used to work for a shipping company. We often had individual items that cost less than a dollar that we had to ship. We weren't selling the items, just shipping them. It would take me probably ten minutes to process the paperwork for a 7 cent screw. And I was just a tiny portion of the process.

Hahaha! Thanks for my morning laugh.

My dad was audited many years ago, when everything was handwritten. He took a day off work, gathered all his paperwork and went in. After looking at everything together, the auditor found that one of my dad’s numbers was misread by 2 cents. The IRS owed my dad two cents. He said they could keep it, but the IRS had to issue the 2 cents to my dad. I cannot remember if they handed him 2 cents or gave/sent a check. I remember how stupid it all was, but someone had to do their job.

Let us know if you need to set up a Go Fund Me. Sounds like you might need it.

So I guess the IRS is open?

My father found an error in something and complained about it. I don’t remember the details, but it was some accounting error they were making on one of his investments or something.  The first person he contacted didn’t want to deal with him over such a minor amount and tried to talk my dad into letting it go.  Huge mistake.  

Dad took it to the top and received a written apology from both the initial person he spoke to as well as the official at the top.  It came with a check for Dad’s refund of 9 cents.  He hung the letters and the check in his office.  Dad told me it wasn’t the money, it was the principal, and that if the did this with every one of their thousands and thousands of customers, it would be quite a large sum.  He originally just wanted to point out their error so they would correct it and not continue making the error, but telling him to just let it go was like waiving a red flag at a bull.