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to enter last years gross income in order to make sure that I was really me. You might recall, that my printer which by the way is still out of ink, was out of ink last year also. And, due to my computer crash, and making no copies, all of last years information was lost.

The program had the saving out for me. If I was unable to file electronically, I could download a mail in form, sign and mail it in, and receive my refund with only a few additional weeks added on to the regular turn around......If I had a printer.....

Fortunately the program also had a trouble hot line to call if I had any problems. I immediately called the number. A nice man with a Filipino accent answered and gave me a number to call the IRS. When I called that number, an answering machine told me to go on line to the IRS web site for help. There, the website for the IRS told me to call the number that the Filipino gentleman had given me. Then I remembered that the post office had forms.

After driving to the post office, I was advised to get the forms at the library. There a very helpful librarian provided me with the necessary forms to mail to the IRS.

It took approximately a week to finish and send the forms and an extra three weeks to get my refund. I no longer file my own returns. I rely on an efficient tax preparer and pay a little more for a rapid refund.

Did I forget to mention my tax stimulus refund check? Now that I have my taxes done by professionals, the IRS would like to send them my refund. Not wanting to get involved with transferring my money to me, my tax professionals close down their account immediately after they receive my initial refund. They are home free. I on the other hand have to wait for the IRS to realize that they can't send my stimulus check to the same address where my refund went. Then they intend to mail the check to my home address. I live on another persons land and have no mail drop at my home address. I do have a post office box however. Of course, due to the fact that the IRS wants to make sure that I am not in the United States illegally, they will not send the check to my post office box, disregarding the fact that I have been paying taxes for 40 years at this address. This year they need to send it to my home address. The post office will return the check to them or put it in a dead letter box. Only the brown truck will deliver to my home address, but the IRS only wants to use the U. S. mail...... I am sure if I go to the IRS web site they will give me a form to download, but as I previously stated......My computer is still out of ink. It is May 22. After July 11, I may have to buy ink.

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