In article <Xns9A6ADAF13Cgrommit383aolcom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Sean Houtman <grommit383@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "ZBicyclist" <ZBicyclist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:fzlFj.1633$p24.1215@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Paul Ciszek wrote:
> >> In article <20080322214403.864$fy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> <xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> My federal tax refund just dropped into my account (it took them
> >>> long enough, I was starting to wonder if I/they somehow screwed up
> >>> the account tracking numbers). Which got me wondering, just what
> >>> happened to my tax return? Since I refuse to honor the FFA and
> >>> their corrupt bargain with the IRS with my business, I file on
> >>> paper.
> >>
> >> Since you are familiar with a variety of government acronyms, perhaps
> >> you could answer this question: I went to the bank to get a money
> >> order
> >> to pay my federal income tax. (I don't want a large check "hanging
> >> fire",
> >> as it were, and prefer to have the money come out now and be done
> >> with it.) I wrote "Internal Revenue Service" in the
> >> pay-to-the-order-of space, and when I started stuffing everything
> >> into envelopes I noticed that my preparer had included a 1040V
> >> payment voucer slip in the envelope. This
> >> slip said to make my check or money order payable to the "United
> >> States Treasury". Cancelling a money order you have already paid for
> >> (and written on) is a pain in the butt. Can I just go ahead and send
> >> it in anwyay?
> >> The government has cashed checks to written to "Internal Revenue
> >> Service" before. Heck, they even cashed the ones written to the
> >> "Infernal Revenue Service".
> >
> > Send it in. A variety of names will likely work.
> >
>
> They process so many checks in a day that they probably don't even look
> closely at the pay to the order of line, if you put "Sean Houtman" on
> that line, they will probably cash the check.
A friend accidently sent his tax payment check to his bank and his
mortgage payment check to the IRS. The bank asked for a new check, the
IRS cashed his mortgage payment.
--
Erich
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