Valdemar
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LOL. No wonder claiming EV credit now flags your return.
Valdemar said:LOL. No wonder claiming EV credit now flags your return.
There are lots of these in the doc. I assume these spellings came right off the returns that were filed.ztanos said:anyone else notice they spelled camaro wrong?
sorry to hear about that.oakwcj said:I was going to start a new thread, because what I have to report is straight out of the Twilight Zone. My tax return has been in limbo since late January. Today I got an "Examination Report" with pages of attached garbage from the IRS. The upshot is that my claim for a "Mortgage Interest Credit for $7,500" under Form 8396 was disallowed and penalties were imposed, because I failed to substantiate the claim! That's right, some bozo transposed the three and the nine and turned my claim for an EV credit on Form 8936 into a claim for a mortgage interest credit on Form 8396. My return was completely accurate. I spoke to a nice lady at the IRS who said that she had never seen anything like this in her 21 years there. I took a bit of comfort from that and am trying to keep my sense of humor intact. I'm faxing them Form 8936 from my return and the bill of sale for the LEAF, because the nice lady said they were checking a lot of these credits and would probably ask me for it once they realized their mistake. She even apologized.
oakwcj said:...The upshot is that my claim for a "Mortgage Interest Credit for $7,500" under Form 8396 was disallowed and penalties were imposed, because I failed to substantiate the claim! ...My return was completely accurate...they were checking a lot of these credits...
thankyouOB said:sorry to hear about that.oakwcj said:I was going to start a new thread, because what I have to report is straight out of the Twilight Zone. My tax return has been in limbo since late January. Today I got an "Examination Report" with pages of attached garbage from the IRS. The upshot is that my claim for a "Mortgage Interest Credit for $7,500" under Form 8396 was disallowed and penalties were imposed, because I failed to substantiate the claim! That's right, some bozo transposed the three and the nine and turned my claim for an EV credit on Form 8936 into a claim for a mortgage interest credit on Form 8396. My return was completely accurate. I spoke to a nice lady at the IRS who said that she had never seen anything like this in her 21 years there. I took a bit of comfort from that and am trying to keep my sense of humor intact. I'm faxing them Form 8936 from my return and the bill of sale for the LEAF, because the nice lady said they were checking a lot of these credits and would probably ask me for it once they realized their mistake. She even apologized.
it seems a one-off situation and, while considerable money is involved, you seem to be maintaining a level of outrage that exceeds the situation.
I wish you well and fervently wish you get your credit.
I would, but I have seen too many times where someone re-entered the data by typing it off a printed list or whatever. I go to great lengths to massage data so it will import properly, and most would say that I expend too much effort. And then I see stupid stuff like this and I'm not sorry one bit.oakwcj said:But wouldn't you think that computers, what with their advanced cut-and-paste capabilities, would have eliminated transposition errors?
thankyouOB said:did you paper or electronic file?
I bet it was electronic.
Let me ask you though: you said that your return has been in limbo since January, but you only now got their report. What, if anything, did you receive in January? I received what sounds like a very similar package recently (albeit it was for my 2010 return) with enough information (I wouldn't call it a "report" though) for me to contest and substantiate the information they had. There was a very specific deadline specified and address/fax number to send my information to. Are you saying that this is the first correspondence you've received from them?oakwcj said:What's disturbing is the length of time they took before sending me their "report" without doing the simplest sanity check, such as actually looking at the form on which I claimed the credit.
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