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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OK Corgi Rancher" data-source="post: 4270280" data-attributes="member: 45773">In 2004 we filed and were awaiting a refund.  Several months passed, no refund, no explanation.  One day my wife was checking her bank account online.  She let out a scream and said almost $7000 was missing from her checking account.  The bank said the account was garnished by the IRS.A short time later we received a letter from the IRS.  The letter explained the money was taken from the account, and our 2004 refund of around $4000 was "intercepted", for not filing our 2003 tax return.  So they "estimated" our taxes and took what they thought we owed.  After months of trying to get an answer I finally got someone on the phone.  He gave us the same canned response.  I asked him to stop and think about the IRS explanation for a moment...  How could a refund be intercepted if we hadn't filed our return in order to get said refund?  He basically said that's how the system was designed to work.  Naturally it didn't make any sense.This went on until 2009 tax year taxes were filed in 2010.  Over 5 years of returns were filed and nearly $20000 seized by the IRS.  Phone calls, letters from us and attorneys, copies of returns sent, etc...  Nothing satisfied those a**holes.We finally got an IRS advocate assigned to our case after the IRS basically said they were washing their hands of the issue until it was time to take the next step in the enforcement action plan.  We could clear all this up by filing our returns and paying what was due. So after a few more months of back and forth we finally found the issue.  Since we married in 1989 we'd filed jointly listing my name first on the return.  When we filed our 2003 return (in 2004) we listed my wife first because she'd become the primary earner due to a career change.  That's right...  The IRS couldn't reconcile that Wife/Husband was the same as returns previously filed as Husband/Wife.  No s**t...that was the problem according to the advocate.We were assured we'd get all the money we were due once all the returns were properly processed.  The nearly $7000 was returned to my wife with a whopping $88 interest accrued over 6 years.  Our refund checks started trickling in about one per month over 6 or 7 months.When the whole thing was nearing a resolution some dude flew his plane into an IRS office building in Austin.  I told one of the IRS thugs on the phone I wished it was a bigger f***ing plane.I hate that agency as much as is humanly possible.</blockquote>

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