My goodness! I think Georgia Tech has more hoops for students to jump through than those poor dolphins at Seaworld have. This is all just to apply for financial aid!
I am fairly sure it has been about a 10 step process.
Anyway, I am now trying to get my VONF transcript to prove to them I have not filed taxes or had other taxable income. The trouble is the IRS hates me!
Both the online options (digital and mail copy) spit out errors and tell me to call them. The problem is when I call them they don’t recognize my social security number!!! There is no IRS number I have found that will let you talk to a human without putting in a social security number… and for some reason because the system literally won’t accept my SSN I am stuck! Both the online and phone tools are dead ends for me.
Mind you I have been putting in the exact same social security number that is on relevant legal documents and the same SSN that I use to login to the FAFSA every time.
I have no clue what the heck is going on.
I have emailed Georgia Tech financial aid and have (as usual) yet to receive a reply from them. I would call except because of my timezone I would have to skip school in order to call them. Even then last time I tried to call their financial aid office it did not go well at all.
It may be that your SSN has been used in a fraud, so the IRS is doing you a favor by not allowing you to apply by mail. Please go to an IRS office and straighten it out.
His SS# would have been on parents’ filings as a dependent. Congress keeps cutting IRS’ budget, so they can’t afford to upgrade their computers and services. Because they are able to collect an extra $10 for every extra dollar they are given, makes sense to throw some money at the IRS. Congress makes the confusing tax laws – IRS has to figure out what Congress meant and then find a way to follow those convoluted paths.
Yes, they would have the match if the parent ever claimed the child as a dependent. I made a mistake with my daughter’s number once and they denied anything I claimed for her (exemption, child credit, child care credit) because the number I used didn’t match her name, and didn’t match MY name.
He can’t FILE it online. Anyone can pull up a form and send it in. However, the better way to do it would be go to an IRS office and have the verification of non-filing given to him right there.
I can’t get into the system either as I know I’ve not filed taxes since 2012 due to not working since then. I am just print the form and fax it if my local IRS office doesn’t do the letter there.
we got stonewalled trying to do the VONF letter online and by phone. we then went to local IRS office and got it in less than an hour. at this point you should just go in a handle it with IRS personally…
@thumperI I assume that the OP is astute enough to be able to print the form out from irs.gov.
I didn’t say you were wrong. If you take a look at my post, I was asking you if you were sure because I didn’t want the OP to make a trip that might not pan out when they could have easily put the form in the mail this morning. And who knows how far an IRS office is, when they would be free to get there during business hours, or if they even have transportation? My kids could definitely not get to an IRS office.
I was just trying to help. Aren’t we all supposed to have the same objective here? If I was wrong I was wrong- no big deal, but why do you need to be unpleasant? Not just to me but to the OP as well?
Because the time crunch makes this harder than it needed to be. A little proactivity goes a long way in this process, and in life. A lesson for the future.
