Beachclubmum
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Bet you didn't realize you were rubbing elbows with the likes of me on these boards.
True story: The first notice I had that something was amiss this morning was when my DH me called to ask about a mysterious pending transaction listed on our bank account, for a little over $3700. I called the bank to check, only to find out that we were being garnished by our state revenue department. I was like WTH, as we had no prior notice and I was a little steamed the bank never called me (we've been customers for over 20 years).
So next was the call to the revenue department to find out why. That took an hour on hold, including having my call dropped at least once. The entire time I was trying to figure out what could have happened. Were we sued in small claims court and never got notice? Did we miss paying a tax when we bought our son's new car last year? The house got paid off a couple of years ago...was there some residual amount due we never knew about? Has there been some sort of fraud activity against us? Absolutely nothing made sense.
So the Revenue person finally gets on the phone and says that although we filed our taxes we never paid the amount due to the state. Hmmmm. Didn't seem like my DH would screw that up, but maybe something happened. In order to get the garnishment notice off the the bank account, I had to immediately pay $600. by cc and agree to a payment plan. So I did that. Afterward I talked to my DH and told him what had gone down. He said he paid when he filed, via Turbo Tax. I said he should check to see if the payment actually came out of our account.
Well, lo and behold, he found the payment and that it had cleared, got a payment tracing number or confirmation number from the bank, and called the Revenue Dept. back. The first supervisor he spoke with found it, but said instead of being properly applied it was placed in some obscure account she had never heard of. The next person he was transferred to couldn't find it, put him on hold, then the call dropped. Person number three couldn't find it either, so my DH had to fax some statement of proof from the bank so they can research it. Guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.
True story: The first notice I had that something was amiss this morning was when my DH me called to ask about a mysterious pending transaction listed on our bank account, for a little over $3700. I called the bank to check, only to find out that we were being garnished by our state revenue department. I was like WTH, as we had no prior notice and I was a little steamed the bank never called me (we've been customers for over 20 years).
So next was the call to the revenue department to find out why. That took an hour on hold, including having my call dropped at least once. The entire time I was trying to figure out what could have happened. Were we sued in small claims court and never got notice? Did we miss paying a tax when we bought our son's new car last year? The house got paid off a couple of years ago...was there some residual amount due we never knew about? Has there been some sort of fraud activity against us? Absolutely nothing made sense.
So the Revenue person finally gets on the phone and says that although we filed our taxes we never paid the amount due to the state. Hmmmm. Didn't seem like my DH would screw that up, but maybe something happened. In order to get the garnishment notice off the the bank account, I had to immediately pay $600. by cc and agree to a payment plan. So I did that. Afterward I talked to my DH and told him what had gone down. He said he paid when he filed, via Turbo Tax. I said he should check to see if the payment actually came out of our account.
Well, lo and behold, he found the payment and that it had cleared, got a payment tracing number or confirmation number from the bank, and called the Revenue Dept. back. The first supervisor he spoke with found it, but said instead of being properly applied it was placed in some obscure account she had never heard of. The next person he was transferred to couldn't find it, put him on hold, then the call dropped. Person number three couldn't find it either, so my DH had to fax some statement of proof from the bank so they can research it. Guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.
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