From DC Office of Tax and Revenue- instead of my refund, a "Notice of Offset." WTH does that mean?

[Anonymous]

Although this post is a few years old, I'm noticing that DC Office of Tax and Revenue has resorted to unethical practices of scheming not only their own non suspecting or suspecting citizens but NON DC residents for alleged tax debt! I'm active duty military and was stationed in DC by the order of my branch of service. I'm a resident of another state and once I got orders overseas I returned to discover that corrupted DC government charged me resident taxes of $3500 for 2008! I kept getting debt collection calls with no info other than I need to pay a debt. Due to the known fact DC is broke and whatever scheme they can concoct to defraud military members not residents, DC tax abiding but unaware of the scam artists in their city government and whoever else, the DC government will try! I tried to work with the DC OTR but they want to play hard ball, so I reported them to Attorney General and the Inspector General to investigate what reeks of corruption, scam, fraud and illegal activities!! I was the wrong person to mess with!! I hope all the other people who know in their gut something is simply not right with a surprise tax bill for only one tax year with no explanation found resolution!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got ours within a week (but we filed in February). I would check up.

We filed after April 15 and received full refund within seven business days. We also e-filed if that makes a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Although this post is a few years old, I'm noticing that DC Office of Tax and Revenue has resorted to unethical practices of scheming not only their own non suspecting or suspecting citizens but NON DC residents for alleged tax debt! I'm active duty military and was stationed in DC by the order of my branch of service. I'm a resident of another state and once I got orders overseas I returned to discover that corrupted DC government charged me resident taxes of $3500 for 2008! I kept getting debt collection calls with no info other than I need to pay a debt[b]. Due to the known fact DC is broke and whatever scheme they can concoct to defraud military members not residents, DC tax abiding but unaware of the scam artists in their city government and whoever else, the DC government will try! I tried to work with the DC OTR but they want to play hard ball, so I reported them to Attorney General and the Inspector General to investigate what reeks of corruption, scam, fraud and illegal activities!! I was the wrong person to mess with!! I hope all the other people who know in their gut something is simply not right with a surprise tax bill for only one tax year with no explanation found resolution!!

DC is not broke. It has a multimillion dollar surplus with a balanced budget thanks to red light cameras.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something very similar to this happened to me with DC Office of Tax & Revenue last year (and I am not the poster in the other thread linked to). They said I owed extra taxes from 2008 and that they were keeping part of our 2010 refund to offset that. We did not owe any taxes from 2008. I had some involved back-and-forth emails with them to explain why we did not owe anything from 2008, and they finally sent us the rest of our 2010 refund. I must say I wonder if somebody is being entreprenurial by sending these notices to people and keeping the difference.

You're not suggesting that someone at the DC Office of Tax and Revenue is corrupt? Perish the thought! And even if someone did concoct a scheme to steal from the government (or taxpayers), surely she would have been found out immediately - the oversight there is so rigorous! There's no way the theft could have gone on for years.

Wait . . .

PP, your hilarious, and on the money. There have been too many people using taxpayer money to fund house renovations, Jaguars, furs, etc. We got the same notice one year. I tried calling the Office but never heard back. It pissed me off enormously, because it is not like DC has a sterling reputation for handling funds, and was one reason I was very glad to move to MD.

[Anonymous]

You could contact the office of council member Marrion Barry. He is an expert at dodging DC taxes and bilking the city out of the money it desperately needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could contact the office of council member Marrion Barry. He is an expert at dodging DC taxes and bilking the city out of the money it desperately needs.

+ LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC sucks so bad.

Yea I guess, but this happened to me with State of Maryland to the tune of $10K. Took me 6 months to get it sorted out. Happens in a lot of places.

[Anonymous]

I got one a few months back. My accountant called and even he couldn't make sense of it. ...seems that back in 2011 they used my tax payment for 2012 and then properly assigned it but assessed a fine for late payment but they never notified me of the fine so it accrued interest wth?

[Anonymous]

So I am out 400 dollars because someone typed in the wrong year when processing a payment though I have never actually made a late payment. And to add insult to I jury, DC in its wisdom never explained this on the notice of offset. Not even provided info on which year the mess up occurred.