Wednesday Whine: The IRS Hates Honest Good People {Flashback Alert}
{I started this post on June 5, 2013 but must have been too tired and pregnant to finish my rant... but now, on July 15, 2020, it remains relevant. So here it is, in a more finished and revised version}. This is a family blog, not a political, religious, crafty, popular, fashionable or superior one. That being said, my family is disgruntled by the IRS {<-- this is as far as I got back in 2013} and the system(s) at large. In 2008 (man, that was forever ago, during a different economic crisis), there was a program for new homeowners like us where you could apply for a $7,500 loan that then had to be re-paid over the next 15 years. We qualified for the loan and then started repaying it (or so we thought) via our tax returns each year. But, then, in 2013, we decided to refinance our mortgage at a lower interest rate and discovered that even though we had been indicating to the IRS that we were repaying a portion of the credit each year, the IRS believed we had purchased our home in 200
