SS: Perhaps first tax SS this year - used wrong account number for direct deposit

[jstreet]

Just got done e-filing my taxes... and I used the wrong account number for direct deposit.

Called the IRS (believe me, this gave me the chills, even living in the beast's native land of DC) and they said they don't have the ability to fix it -- it's all out of their hands and automated. I'm pretty sure they said the same thing about Skynet in Terminator before the machines killed all the humans, no?

At any rate... they try to deposit it anyway -- thankfully the account doesn't exist, I checked with Citibank, so it will be returned -- and then when it's returned they issue a check.

Except I'm moving in 2 weeks, and I'm betting the check won't be issued sooner than that. They said they also don't forward checks, so I should file a paper change of address form, and hopefully the refund will be directed to the right place.

Hopefully. :sad:

Of all the damn times I've entered that number... from Paypal, to Amazon's pay by EFT, to ING Direct, to my HR department... I mess it up on my big refund check. BLEH!

[DarkFury]

Dayuuum... now THAT sucks! :eek:

[Paymaster]

To put this suckage in perspective... at least you will be getting a check. Some of us gonna have to pay...

[jstreet]

To put this suckage in perspective... at least you will be getting a check. Some of us gonna have to pay...:nods: This is true. My first year of my first job I messed up my DC taxes so badly (essentially I didn't pay them) that I owed over $2000. Not a good year. Luckily I'd messed up my fed taxes in reverse almost as badly but in reverse, so I didn't have to foot that whole thing, but still, SSSSS.

[zero2dash]

Sorry to hear that...man that does suck.
I check mine like 15x just to make sure. :)
Just got our deposit last Friday...I've already spent roughly $1300 on the car "gear" (system, alarm, window tint). (We're getting $4100 back federal.)

[Markel]

One reason I like using TurboTax (and I'm sure other tax packages do the same) - if I entered my account information correctly the first year, it has all the same info carried forward for me every year thereafter. (Of course, I haven't moved or changed banks in 10 years.)

[jstreet]

I just got my tax refund :gle:

I went down to Citibank to ask if there was any way they could try and set up a "forward" so they the wrong account number would go into the right account, but they said no.

But somehow, they corrected the mistake because it's here! I think Citibank is my valentine...

[Grimm]

I just got my tax refund :gle:

I went down to Citibank to ask if there was any way they could try and set up a "forward" so they the wrong account number would go into the right account, but they said no.

But somehow, they corrected the mistake because it's here! I think Citibank is my valentine...
Most likely what happened is the IRS notated the account and someone corrected it. The IRS has, in the past 15 years improved it's customer service termendiously. They figured out htat hte easier and more friendly it is to file taxes, the quicker and more reliably people would do so.
Electronic filing has freed up a lot of resources for dealing with other problems. What used to take months to check now takes a few hours for the majority of returns filed electronicaly. This leaves hundreds of bored accountants to do audits on the accounts that flag some kind of error. Like an invalid account number.
Come to think of it, that's probably what happened. You got audited. The auditor saw the note and corrected it. The great majority of audits don't involve the tax payer. The filing is reviewed and if nothing seems amiss it gets passed and no further review is taken.

I had my taxes done last night. I am getting about $300 back. I will sign it in a couple days after my accountant finishes it. It will be filed electronicaly and I will probably get my refund in a couple weeks. I pushed up my appointment a month because the sooner it gets in, the faster it is processed.