{"id":22617,"date":"2015-03-18T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=22617"},"modified":"2017-01-08T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:51:42","slug":"my-son-and-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/my-son-and-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"MY SON AND THE IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My younger <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">son, Jack,<\/span><\/span> got a certified letter from the IRS with a hand-written Post-it note on it.\u00a0 What did the <em>gobierno<\/em> want?\u00a0 The government usually sends unsigned computer-generated letters.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe Jack the Drummer Boy owed another $15 from his Michigan Wolverines basketball band income.\u00a0 (Jack was in college at the time.)<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t the IRS pick on me, instead? I wanted to be audited. I haven\u2019t been audited since 1982. Thirty-three years of saving bills and income\/expense statements and checks &#8212; and nobody wants to see it.\u00a0 Yes, I throw the stuff out periodically, but I replenish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/irs-and-jack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/irs-and-jack-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"irs and jack\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/irs-and-jack-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/irs-and-jack.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Jack told<\/strong><\/span> the IRS he made money as a camp counselor and playing gigs.\u00a0 He said his dad paid for college.\u00a0 Jack later told me, \u201cThe auditor was impressed you were footing the out-of-state tuition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.\u00a0 No penalty.\u00a0 (Jack got a $68 credit.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My younger son, Jack, got a certified letter from the IRS with a hand-written Post-it note on it.\u00a0 What did the gobierno want?\u00a0 The government usually sends unsigned computer-generated letters.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe Jack the Drummer Boy owed another $15 from his Michigan Wolverines basketball band income.\u00a0 (Jack was in college at the time.) Why didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinder-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23001,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions\/23001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}