Odds and Ends & a Z update
>> Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Things continue to go well with our birth mom. I'm going to put up a new post on the adoption blog today with those details. We're trying to work out the details, mostly with Mike's work, so we can go and meet her sometime in June.
We got our IRS return, minus the adoption credits, which at first made me really mad. But it turns out the IRS was being nice and giving us our regular return while they process the adoption credits. Turns out the adoption credit is the single largest tax credit available and as such, draws a lot of attention from the criminal element who see it as a fairly easy way to rip off the system. Because of that, any applications for the credit are automatically sent to an outside private business to be investigated for fraud. That business is given 60 days by the IRS to figure out if the applications are legit or not (go through the paperwork, contact adoption agencies, etc), and they got ours on April 3 or something, which means we should be finding out in the next couple of weeks if we were cleared to receive the credits or not. The IRS lady said that if we were able to prove we had and were adopting, we shouldn't have any trouble getting the credits, so that made me feel a little better.
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We got our IRS return, minus the adoption credits, which at first made me really mad. But it turns out the IRS was being nice and giving us our regular return while they process the adoption credits. Turns out the adoption credit is the single largest tax credit available and as such, draws a lot of attention from the criminal element who see it as a fairly easy way to rip off the system. Because of that, any applications for the credit are automatically sent to an outside private business to be investigated for fraud. That business is given 60 days by the IRS to figure out if the applications are legit or not (go through the paperwork, contact adoption agencies, etc), and they got ours on April 3 or something, which means we should be finding out in the next couple of weeks if we were cleared to receive the credits or not. The IRS lady said that if we were able to prove we had and were adopting, we shouldn't have any trouble getting the credits, so that made me feel a little better.
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