{"id":230,"date":"2011-12-10T18:10:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T02:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-12-10T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:02:37","slug":"government-bureacracy-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/12\/10\/government-bureacracy-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Government bureacracy in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August, I received a letter from the IRS claiming that I owe them back taxes.  I wrote them a letter contesting the claim but paying their claimed amount (plus penalties) in the meantime.  A month afterward I received a response thanking me for my payment, and asking me to provide additional evidence in the dispute.  I responded again, and now I receive another letter from the IRS, sent by certified mail and requiring me to drive halfway across Fremont to pick up, and it turns out to be a Notice of Deficiency for the amount I already paid months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, I received a letter from the IRS claiming that I owe them back taxes. I wrote them a letter contesting the claim but paying their claimed amount (plus penalties) in the meantime. A month afterward I received a response thanking me for my payment, and asking me to provide additional evidence in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}