Anxiety inducing mail
April 9, 2007I opened the mailbox today and pulled out our stack of mail. Bills, magazine from our insurance company, statement from T’s retirement IRA, and two thick letters from the IRS.
The instant I see them, my heart starts racing, pit in my stomach, the whole deal. I start thinking that maybe we are getting audited, something we don’t need or want to have to deal with right now.
I leave them until last.
Then, with shaking hands, I open the first one. At the bottom of the first pages it says, if making a payment, please use this voucher. Now I start thinking that we owe money. We don’t have money to pay the IRS and I don’t know why we would owe money anyway.
IÂ flip to the second page.
It says, “Thank you for submitting your 1040X. We have made the adjustments to your 2005 taxes. You do not owe any taxes at this time.”
All worked up for nothing: We submitted corrected taxes for 2004 & 2005 because we never claimed T’s work mileage above what he got reimbursed for. Duh.
OMG! I would be panicking too, I’m glad you didn’t owe or were getting audited.