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The good folks at the Office of the Comptroller of Maryland, Compliance Programs, Business Nexus Unit, have sent me an interesting letter.

Apparently, they've been told of a purchase for $739.96 made on 5/26/08 by me at Ira Wood & Sons of Owensboro, KY. Maryland believes I owe them $44.40 for our 6% sales tax on that purchase.

The snag is that I have no idea what they're talking about. The firm sells home furnishings, according to their web site. I've never heard of them before. I have no record in my credit card statements or checkbook for any purchase remotely that large 60 days before or after 5/26/08. In short, it would seem there's either an error in processing somewhere, fraudulent accounting or I've been purchasing stuff in my sleep while simultaneously erasing my own paper trail.

I've left telephone messages with both the vendor and the tax office asking for more information.

Date: 2011-11-10 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trawnapanda.livejournal.com
do you even know where owensborough KY *is*? beyond being somewhere in kentucky?

Date: 2011-11-10 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com
Only because I looked it up on Google Maps after I got the letter. I'm sure the tax folks will claim I must have ordered something online or via telephone, but that would make a cash purchase (since there's no paper trail) very challenging.

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