Seriously, would you?
Assume you owed a customer $1,000. The debt goes back over a year, and now you’re ready to pay. The customer notifies you that she’s moved, and provides you with her new correct address. How many of you would mail the return to the old incorrect address and wait for the check to come back before reissuing and sending it to her correct address? I’m guessing none of you.
Yet the Internal Revenue Service is going to do this to a victim of identity theft deliberately, with either malice aforethought or just plain indifference and stupidity. Jason Dinesen has more in his 11th part of a series that must be read from beginning to end to understand how broken the IRS’s ability to deal with identity theft really is.
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