The computer gremlins have a sense of humor
In the post telling you about my TurboTax woes, I mentioned that I ended up doing my taxes as I always have so far—by hand.
And today I mailed them off, with hours to spare. Way ahead of time, by my definition.
Now I see this story:
And they say procrastination isn’t good. A tax reprieve till 9999 sounds pretty darn good, though, doesn’t it? And that’s just in the heading, the part in red. In the body of the message, we see that we also get to time travel to the past.
The online filers stymied by the problem got an extra day’s grace. Everything is in the best of hands.
A top I.R.S. official warned Congress in October that a “catastrophic” system failure was just a matter of time.
More people are filing online than ever before, even though I’m not one of them.
Ah. A voice of wisdom is heard in the Void.
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Unfortunately, that alternative is not available to us weaklings who farm out our tax prep to “paid preparers.” :>(
If I received a statement from my bank with a date that was off by 7,981 years, I would not feel comfortable leaving any funds in that bank.
Planned Outage of Washington DC, wants to help couples meet their fiduciary responsibilities. There will be collateral damage, but penalties will be deferred until judgment day. Is 9999 the mark of the Ass?
Everyone seems to hone in on the 9999 date. Notice that the service is unavailable until September 22, 2016. Yes, 2016. Is even the month of September correct?
Bruce:
That’s what my reference to “time travel to the past” was about.
Perhaps is IRS officials spent time keeping their systems working instead of targeting political opposition groups, they’d do better at their jobs.
“And have you ever noticed that “The IRS” spells “Theirs”? ”
–Mark Perry, Carpe Diem blog