Day: October 17, 2019

The Internal Revenue Service recently sent me a notice stating it “believed” my recent tax return had a mistake and that I therefore owed the IRS several hundred dollars. This was unclear, because a belief (“We believe there is a miscalculation on your…1040”) does not lead to a truth (“As a result, you owe”). Rather than providing the exact source of the so-called miscalculation, the form instructed me to a call a certain number for more information. Or, of course, I could just pay the bill with no justification.  This notice makes me think about three C’s: completeness, conciseness and.