/c/Vent: Vent about your life here

357 readers

1 users here now

A community for venting about your life, good or bad

Rules:

Please follow site rules.

Posts must be about venting, Posts not matching a vent will be removed.

Posts must be longer then clear, understandable and elaborated in the post body.

Be kind to other users

Trolling is not allowed.

No Hate speech, Slurs, Slander, Bullying, Harassments or Arguments.

NSFW/NSFL posts must be tagged with a NSFW tag

No posts talking about planing/committing/threatening your suicide, self-harm or other forms of self-injury.

No begging/asking for charity

No minors in NSFW threads/NSFW threads with minors involved

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Got a surprise tax bill of 15k € (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Apparently it's perfectly possible to owe the IRS tens of thousands, and then just make up debt and point to a random person telling the IRS to go after them... ...and they will simply draft up a letter, demanding you to pay this outstanding, ficticious debt within two weeks.

What. The. Fuck.

I know the person who claims that I owe them 15k. It's my weed dealer. I also know he has legal and financial issues, so I assume he somehow told his creditors that I owed him a lot of money, and there is no law requiring verification.

So... Either I pay 15k € I don't actually owe, or I get a lawyer to dispute it, which will also be several thousands, none of which I am responsible for.

I'm not currently in debt but I also don't have any savings.

I dunno man, it seems like in this world it's just not possible to go a single year without being accused/hounded/... no one gives a fuck and everyone just wants "theirs". Which would be fine if people would leave me alone and not try to get their grubby mitts on what little I do have.

Fuck.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, kinda sounds like a scam. Call your local tax office and verify the letter is genuine.

Don't use the number on the letter, get the office number from their website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's unfortunately real. I was able to verify it, but I can't contact anyone to fully verify and explain to me on what BASIS I'm deemed to owe this sum until Monday. Very much looking forward to that phonecall...