Don't mention the "T" word! I am currently embroiled in a major battle with the IRS for taxes they say I owe back from '93 and '94. They sent notices about this to an address I haven't lived at for 8 years and only last year pounced on my tax return for back taxes, finally making me aware of the problem. You don't even wanna know what a nightmare it is trying to recreate 11 and 12 year old financial records when everyone, self included, disacards stuff after 7 years! @#$$%@!@!#!$!$#@#

Anyhow, if I won 5 mill, I'd let the IRS have their undeserved blood money on top of what they'd normally take without a fight. Then:

1) I'd build me as energy self-sufficient house as possible on a 100 acres or so of land in Montana with a river running thru it and solid water rights.
2) Buy a couple of guns I've been wanting.
3) Make the appropriate gifts to faithful friends
4) Peel off the appropriate amount to a worthy charity
5) Invest the remainder
6) Never be heard from again

An Australian slang word meaning 'good', 'excellent'.

Isn't there a statute of limitations?

Hah! Hah! You dreamer! Not as far as the IRS is concerned, and in their eyes you are guilty until proven innocent. :mad2:

Been in that boat myself just recently, same situation just a different tax collector. It concerned vehicle taxes a town I haven't lived in for 10 years suddenly decided I owed them when I went to renew my car registration. The amount wasn't really that much but I fought it on principal.

Long story short, it turns out that you really can't fight city hall. After driving around with an expired registration for 2 months, going back and forth with the powers that be, I ended up paying the freakin' tax a couple days before the end of the year so I could at least claim it as taxes paid on this years income tax returns. :(

What gets me is that this is obviously

1) Some wierd clerical error when inputting data into some monster government database somewhere.

or

2) A major corporation up to some scam of it's own, and I and God knows how many others are merely innocent bystanders.

I am listed as working for a company I never even heard of before, and when I tracked down the phone number of their corporate offices and requested a letter from them stating I had not been their employee for the years in question, they refused, saying making a statement EITHER way about my hypothetical employment would be "playing games with the IRS."

What!?! :eyebrow:

Yes.