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Originally posted by geekline:
My Indiana Sales Tax withholdings were due on 01/30/2003 - they had to be postmarked Friday to be considered on time. I had them all made out, ready to go and they were sitting out on the desk.
All day Friday, I had this sinking feeling that I was forgetting something. So in my mind, I kept going over my mental to do list. Well, this morning I found the envelope of them buried underneath Saturday's junk mail.
Now I am almost sure that the State of Indiana - being run by the greedy, self-serving morons that infest Indianpolis and the state house - is going to exercise thier right to assess a 10% penalty on the more than ten thousand dollars in sales tax that was collected this past year.
I think that junk mailers are responsible for this. Had they not sent me thier crap, I would have seen the envelope and that would have trigged my memory to go down and mail them.
My experience in Washington is that people tend to be forgiving ... especially when the delay was in such a short time frame. If they do contact you with a penalty assesment you can always call them, talk to a manager and try to beg your way out of it ... humor helps in this situation!