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IRS Compliance Test

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Both the federal and state want me to put both mine and my wife’s social security numbers on a check.  In our ever improved financial infrastructure I have a huge problem with that.

The bank no longer returns my actual checks even though I paid for them.  Instead the statements have photocopied microscopic versions of them rendering them unuseable in tracking my own finances all throughout the tax year.  In my years of experience doing taxes this practice also increased drastically and in a most ungreen matter the amount of paper the bank sends me.  Oh, have ever burnt old financial paper in the fireplace to destroy old records?  Does it not make a tremendous mess?  Amazing how even after burning sometimes you can still read it.

Now if I put both socials on a check which I never get back plus the unknown aspects of the micro-copies which may or may not be an instantly transmittable digital image the sum total is like answering the email from the Nigerian prince who owe’s me 10 million dollars.

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  1. I want to make sure that they credit the propert account. I don’t want them to credit some other individual named ShillelaghLaw.

  2. your account number on your check??

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    p>You must realize that you are merely providing as a reference the number the government gave you years ago when your parents registered you with, um, the government?  They don’t care about your name so much as they care about the number that was assigned to you.  The government likes account numbers as does any outfit that has to deal with large sums of money.   If you’re going to pay the government money, wouldn’t it be wise to use the identifying number that ensures accurate application of your money?  

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    p>Wait, don’t answer that.   I really don’t want to know.  

    • before with government or the credibility and or intent of government, now I do.  

      • The Spanish Inquisition IRS is watching, waiting.  Just make a mistake…  They don’t like mistake makers.  

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        p>BTW:  How’d we get to where the government is the enemy of the people?  Can we change it?

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        p>A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. –Thomas Jefferson  

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