Crossposted from Town Called Dobson & My Left Wing
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Along with my day job in advertising and the lunatic behind this strip, I also am executive director of my interfaith church and we have a pretty substantial relief outreach ministry called Books For Soldiers and we have been waiting on our 501 c3 certificate.
Last Wednesday, I received a response letter back from the IRS concerning the status of the 501 c3 submission for our church. Instead of awarding us the status, it was a four page letter outlining 41 questions they needed answered. The deadline for submitting all required documents, answers and all the rest was April 12th – today.
I have been working on this for the last week, 18 hours a day. The IRS guy was not picking up the phone so he couldn’t answer any questions.
So I printed the last page out yesterday morning and was proof-reading it when the IRS guy called. He was out with the flu and was calling to extend my deadline by 2 weeks. I told him it was already done and warned him the documents were now 2 inches thick.
“Oh, no. I am going to have to read all of that.”
Anyway, I am exhausted and apologize for the unfortunate hiatus.
Good to see you back. Seems the IRS among other government agencies these days has no measure of service. All is about making life as difficult as possible for an agency. Good luck with those folk.