Wow! I hope the best for you. Hopefully, you will become as masterful in
financial matters as you are in writing. In the interim, I've sometimes
used a beneficial resource regarding financial matters. It is MSN's
MoneyCentral which can be found at
http://moneycentral.msn.com/community/message/board.asp?frameset=http%3A%2F%
2Fmoneycentral%2Ecommunities%2Emsn%2Ecom%2FYourMoney%2Fmessageboard%2Emsnw%3
Faction%3Dmb%5Fpost%26ID%5FTopic%3D0&Board=YourMoney
Lots of people in various states of financial success/problems ask questions
or give reasonable answers. It's worth a shot.
Michael
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote in message
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> >*huge warm tight hug* Howard dear...you are not alone. You have all of
us
> >that will be by your side through this. You have our love and our
support.
> >I remember a run in with the IRS back in '96 and the threat of them
taking
> >half my paycheck because of my ex and I was the sole supporter of my
> >daughter. I remember the tears and the arguments I had with
them...because
> >I was held responsible for what he owed...even though I had filed an
injured
> >spouse form every year that he and I were married. The important thing
here
> >is that they DID finally work with me and work out an arrangement but I
> >fought and fought hard. You WILL get through this.
> >
> >I don't know how feasible this offer is - but please consider it. I can
> >help you with your paperwork from afar. And, my dearest friend, it won't
> >cost you a thing. If we can work out something where you can mail your
> >paperwork to me, I can work on it from here and we can correspond through
> >email and phone. Down the road...when you're back on your feet....you
can
> >buy me flowers. :-) Deal?
>
>
> [Maybe there is a way, at least to reconstruct some of the records
> for expense reports. Do you have a fax or fax modem, and a copier? I
> probably have old ones I can send if not. One enormous help would be
> to give you a list of my back expenses and get the receipts together,
> calling hotels and such as necessary. Since the actual expense entry
> is through a secure link on the computer, you probably wouldn't be
> able to actually enter them unless I can get special authorization,
> which might not be impossible. I could send letters of authorization
> for you to use to the hotels and such, and, where they won't provide
> it, you can tell me exactly what I need to get. For the more recent
> years, the credit card stuff is mostly online and I could get you
> access.
>
> Hey...maybe we could work in a DC vacation for the bunch of you!
>
> Hughughug
>
> >
> >Love,
> >
> >Cindy/Mrs. WP
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Howard C. Berkowitz"
> >To:
> >Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:29 PM
> >Subject: Tara: *sigh* 2001 0413 2107
> >
> >
> >> Your moderator's turn to vent.
> >>
> >> George Orwell's 1984 missed reality, but had a hell of a lot of human
> >> truths. One of the uglier truth was "Room 101," where the
> >> brainwashers would confront a subject with his or her greatest fear,
> >> the one for which there is no defense.
> >>
> >> Given my love of words and books, it seems weird that my Room 101 is
> >> paper, or at least virtual paper, of the financial kind. Tax returns.
> >> Expense reports. Divorce discovery.
> >>
> >> I thought I was getting my head above water a bit, ever so slowly. My
> >> accountant did get my 1997 return together, but I had to delay
> >> sending a payment for several weeks while I nagged my publisher for a
> >> scheduled advance. Actually, I was going to send it in a week or two
> >> ago, but things were pretty overwhelming with the broken ankle and a
> >> need to function while zonked on drugs. Today, as literally I wrote
> >> a check and was addressing a FedEx envelope for the IRS, certified
> >> mail from my company showed up, with a notice of salary levy from the
> >> IRS.
> >>
> >> The phone number for the collection manager with which my accountant
> >> had worked turned out to be a fax, not voice. When I called the 800
> >> number on the levy, I got an incredibly hostile woman who not only
> >> would not put me through to the manager handling the case, but kept
> >> yelling at me not to interrupt her questions...to let her dictate
> >> what was said and what an acceptable answer would be. I called the
> >> Philadelphia service center nunber listed on the IRS web page, and
> >> got a recording that was non-working. Calling my accountant back, I
> >> got an assortment of numbers for the state-level collection and
> >> compromise sections, and they again turned out either to be out of
> >> service. Spending 20 minutes on the phone for the IRS Virginia
> >> office, I was able to get a phone number in the levy (not the
> >> compromise) section, but again could find nothing but voicemail.
> > >
> >> Enough of the details, I suppose. It seems blacker, I'm sure, going
> >> into a weekend. But the reality returns on Monday, that I am
> >> overwhelmed even by filing expense reports to my employer, going back
> >> over a year, and probably being owed at least $10,000.
> >>
> >> When things worked during my marriage with Kathleen, she handled
> >> these administrative and financial matters beautifully -- as long as
> >> she felt a sense of partnership. In the last few years, it became a
> >> battleground.
> >>
> >> If I were to put it in lifestyle terms, I crave a financial domme --
> >> this is an area where I don't seem to be able to exert much control,
> >> or at least am in intense pain when I do so. "Pain" is one word I
> >> can use, but "panic reaction" fits just as well.
> >>
> >> Before the levy and the potential freeze, I wouldn't have had
> >> financial problems paying some sort of personal
> >> assistant/bookeeper/whatever, but the problems were finding such a
> >> person, and also finding someone that simply can deal with all this
> >> crap without humiliating me about it. I'm now in way over my head.
> >>
> >> I've contacted my Employee Assistance Program, and do have a call in
> >> to a counselor for emotional support. Allegedly, they also offer
> >> assistance for financial problems, but that turned out to be
> >> referrals to financial problems or possibly attorneys. What I need is
> >> simpler, it would seem -- I wish I could find some sort of
> >> "professional organizer," and, while that person chips away at the
> >> chaos, find some way to buy time with the IRS.
> >>
> >> While it certainly won't look that way to the tax people, it's not
> >> wilful avoidance, it's panic.
> >>
> >> Hopefully, some of my queries will get answered early in the week.
> >> But it did seem a good idea to vent. No question I'm depressed, and
> >> think I have every right to be. But things are getting sort of
> >> overwhelming...hell...they are overwhelming.
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