State Tax Refund Arrives!

[bjarvis]

I submitted my paperwork last Thursday; Maryland has faithfully deposited my $300 refund in my bank account this morning.

If I wasn't still feeling so tired and already trying to pay down bills & credit cards, I'd blow it all on ice cream instantly.

If prior years are any indication, my fed refund should be arriving in the next 3-5 business days.

Comments

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Buy me a drink, sailor?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to! Anything else for sale, if the price was right?

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I give so much away for free that it would be difficult to charge for it now.

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

Lucky you to live somewhere where the state can actually afford to pay the tax refunds with something other than IOUs.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking that myself this morning when I was catching up on last night's podcast of "Marketplace" on NPR --Kansas may also be doling out IOUs, it seems-- followed up with the attempted in-house California GOP senate coup.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

IOUx? really? as in, not negotiable cheques (er, checks) or specie; vouchers in lieu of an actual tax refund?

heavenly days. I'd not heard about this.

Somewhere I have about 35GBP worth of "certificates of post-war credit", issued to my dad, who was working in the United Kingdom during WWII. As near as I can tell, it was an enforced payroll loan to the gummint. He never cashed them in [they were paid back in the mid 1970s - after we'd left the UK. The certificates are really poor quality paper (wartime standard, I guess), printed in different colours each year, filled in with fountain pen on the back by, I assume, the payroll department at wherever he was working.]

Is this we-can't-actually-PAY-you-tax-refund chit system similar? "certificate of post-recession credit" or something? Enquiring Minds Need To Know.