Friday rant

I need to have a b*tchy moment, because I am supremely pissed off.

About a month ago I recieved an inheritance tax notice from my state. This pissed me off because they were taxing MY accounts al because my mother had helped me open the accounts 6 years before she passed away. So i have to pay the state my money because they believed that i inherited it from her. That in itself is bullshit to me.

I called, moaned, groaned and basically had a semi informative conversation with one of the agents at the head tax place across the state. I followed the directions, filled out 2 seperate checks, and mailed it out the day I recieved the noticed. Two of them. Two weeks later I received a receipt of payment.

A month later(today), I see the exact same letters in my mail.With INTREST. WTF is this? I call during a half hour break, and am put on hold for 15 minutes. Before the woman could demand accounts numbers and stuff I cut her off. I explained I had a simple question, provided her the "estate" name, and account number. I tell her my question. I payed this a month ago, I have a receipt as well as a copy of the two checks from my bank, showing them as cashed by the state. The woman pauses..clicks away. She then informs me that she had no record of payment made and puts me on hold for another 10 minutes. Finally she comes back. Apparently how these things go, I am suposed to recieve the first notice from a local office, I pay the local office and provide an extra copy of my forms to the local office. They get two copies If you are following me. I followed the rules, I did this. Well within the 30 day limit.

After they have cashed my checks, they are suposed to include a copy of my receipt, and one of my enclosed copies to be mailed out. This is suposed to be mailed out to the head office at the state capital. The state capital office is then suposed to issue a paid in full for my records. Apparently somewhere between recieving my receipt, and them mailing the proper forms to their mother ship, they forgot. Someone did not mail me forms until the first of this month.

The woman, (and I use this term loosely because she sounded like a gum chewing 18 year old) on the line informs me that because my payment was recieved late I would have to pay the late fee. HELL NO. I informed her that that was simply impossible, as I had copies of when the checks were recieved and cashed. Two days after the original letter was recieved, and two days after I had mailed my checks in. This was well within the alotted time frame. I demanded that this issue be fixed, or I would be speaking to the head supervisor. After another 5 minutes of typing she finally informed me that she could indeed see the dates recieved and I would not be help responsible afterall, as it was the mistake of our local tax offices.

So all in all, while i originally paid money I felt was taken incorrectly from me, I did not have to pay any additional fees. I suspect this was all a ploy to squeeze me for more money. Not happening.