God damn identity thieves and the systems that enable this!!! People are NOT numbers.

[hunter]

Our tax return got rejected because some asshole is using my son's social security number. My son is a full time college student and we declared him a dependent. Yep, I called him, he didn't file. There's the first mistake; him not filing and discovering the thief. Next was us waiting 'til April to file our taxes, but I confess, I procrastinate because taxes are such a pain in the ass and sometimes we owe.

Of course I haven't been able to get in touch with the IRS since we recieved the rejection, and now it's Saturday and their stupid automated system says call back Monday to talk to a human.

We're broke and nearly bankrupt because of HUGE medical bills, lack of work, late paychecks, college expenses, credit card rates that jumped to 29%, and now this crap. When I saw we were getting a refund this year I was happy. Now I'm not because I'll have to wrestle a mindless bureacracy for it.



I wish I lived in a civilized nation. Today is one of those days I want to say fuck it all and sail away from here.



We could fix this nation; we've just got to get rid of a lot of shit. A good start would be a single-payer health care system, free colleges and universities, and simple income taxes that became steeply progressive beyond the middle classes.

There are plenty of people in high government looking after the interests of the very wealthy. What about the rest of us?

[Kaleva]

1. Very sorry to hear that!

Read an article about similar cases such as yours and the advice given was to file as soon as possible.

[hunter]

4. Now I know.

And I'm a little afraid there will be more trouble.

The IRS website links were not promising.

It's going to be a lot of bother for my son too.

[seabeyond]

2. i have at least learned to put all the tax stuf in one place. we wait until the 13, 14th to give to

tax guy. ours gets complicated. i dont know why hubby does that. and we even got money back.

i am sorry. nothing worse than messing with this stuff. to get a person on the phone.... alone, is very frustrating anymore.

[SharonAnn]

3. Friend of mine got hers rejected because IRS didn't accept the hyphen in her last name.

IRS required it be without a hyphen and then it didn't match the Social Security number which has a hyphen. So, she had to go get her Social Security card and record changed so that it matched the IRS so that she could file her taxes.

Sheeesh!!

[existentialist]

8. Ooops,. just realized I posted under hubby's name here

and in my other post below. I'll have to log out and log back in as me, lol.

[michaz]

5. Recently happened to friends of ours. Thier 3 year old son died about 6-7 months ago

They went to file their taxes and it was rejected because his SS# had already been used. It is not like this little one filed his income tax on his own. He was one of triplets. It is horrible. Sorry this happened to you.

[Initech]

6. I swear - it seems more and more like we live in the Matrix.

[Make7]

7. Sorry to hear that DU member 109742.

I hope it gets sorted out quickly, 109742.
 

[existentialist]

9. What's truly amazing is how easy they make it for the

thieves, giving them the money without any fuss or checking (when there are usually a ton of red flags when these kinds of fraudulent returns are filed), and yet, when the real person tries to get it straightened out, they make it extremely difficult, time-consuming, exhausting and draining. It should be the other damned way around.