My letter to the Department of Revenue!
First of all, who do they think they are losing records and then demanding proof that we filed such records with them?
Dear Sir/Madam,
The letter you have sent dated July 18, 2016 titled, 'Notice and Demand to File' is not only perplexing but egregious. I'm not sure how your records suddenly show that we did not file a 2014 tax return, albeit we owed $59 to the [State] Department of Revenue that year, paid for with check no. [such and such]
I will not be filing any amended or secondary return, as we filed an original return in the early months of 2015 and sent payment owed prior to the April 15, 2015 deadline. Your demand is null and void, or as by those definitions not valid. It does not “(of an argument or point) hav[e] a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent.”
If you choose to calculate the tax that we paid as unpaid and so choose to charge penalties and interest based on information that you apparently do not have or show record of, then we will choose to not pay such charges, interest and penalties based on the emptiness of information you do have. It seems more feasible that you have misplaced, lost or destroyed what we transmitted, which should serve to alarm us as to the filing and care-taking of sensitive information you hold about us.
I have given this matter my immediate attention as so urged. It would be advisable that your departments be more diligent and responsible and accountable for the private and confidential information we transmit to you annually.
Genuinely,