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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Swinging for the Fences

Possumblog's Gopher State Reporter, Toni Albani, just got Chet the E-Mail Boy hopping (or, a reasonable fascimile thereof) with this missive:

Subject: IRS

[...] I recently had to change the name of the Trustee for my company's 401k plan. So the appropriate form was completed, signed and sent off to the IRS. Got a letter back acknowledging receipt and record update for this change.

The IRS letter was signed by a fellow who was the Manager from Document Perfection Operations. Can you imagine someone was paid a salary to think up the name of this function! [...]

Heh. Well, as I told Miss Toni, you at least have to give them credit for dreaming big.

As for what this bunch actually does, the best thing I could find was from the Cincinnati Service Center, in (naturally) Covington, Kentucky. Page 5 of their handy manual tells us that after your tax return comes in and is opened and sorted and batched that:

[...] The batched returns go to Document Perfection Branch, where tax examiners check for completeness and obvious errors and then code and edit the return for transcription by employees in the Data Conversion Branch. Certain conditions require the tax examiner to send the return back and/or to correspond with the taxpayer: missing signatures, SSN’s, or Forms W-2, for example. Many refunds are delayed each year because returns cannot be processed but must be sent back for missing information. [...]

Somehow, I think that "perfection" may still be a bit of an overstatement...

(By the way, Chet thought you all might like a photo of him as a youngster with his favorite keyset.)

posted by Terry at 4:32:00 PM

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