Not the longest day trip, November 13: Left at 9:30 AM, home again 7:30 PM, 10 hour day Two hour meeting Montgomery plus cat nap, and meal, saved $5,000 tax bill Total 378.9 miles 378.9/(10-2)=47.363 mph (1/217.3)*1000=4.602 kWh/mi 217.3 Wh*(100/1000)=21.73 kWh/100 miles SuperCharger costs $12.01+$4.00+$4.05+$9.86=$29.92 ($29.92/378.9)*100.0=$7.90/100 mi Called Montgomery and "we take walk-ins." So at 9 AM, dressed and on the road 30 minutes later. Arrived 2 PM and had a very successful meeting, corrected tax returns and saved $5,000. Return drive through Birmingham rush hour traffic, piece of cake with Full Self Driving (FSD.) Bought the car in March 2019 for AutoPilot and affordable miles. At age 75, it supports my independent lifestyle with affordable, easy, rides on short notice. However, did get one FSD "strike." FSD can give up to 5 strikes before a week 'time out' ages them out. This strike happened just after Birmingham rush hour traffic. Probably due to me looking around too much instead of just straight ahead and letting the car do the driving. Counter intuitive, I could have gone faster by adding charging stops to maximize the charging rate with shorter but higher power charging. But it was a beautiful day and I was in no rush. Solar charging before I left and recharge once the Sun comes up keeps the cost per mile down. But had I driven down pre-sunrise, I would have seen lower than the $0.33-$0.39/kWh SuperCharger rate and avoided the urban rush hour traffic. Bob Wilson
May I ask what tax service make the original $5000 error? Hopefully not bad advice from the IRS itself, though I understand they can make such errors too.
My state tax department sent me a nastygram last spring where they disallowed a deduction I had claimed, and then added on interest and a penalty for not paying enough, because they said I hadn't included the form to substantiate it. I didn't go to Indy, but I went to their local office and said, um, here are the same forms I mailed, and the guy said oh, sometimes their scanner feeds two sheets at once, and that took care of that. I figured that would go faster than trying to make the same case to somebody on the phone.
^ I had one of that general variety with the IRS, where either they didn't process my spouse's IRA form, just mine, or TurboTax didn't transmit it. Mailing in a copy resolved that one. Another where I made an error under the influence of pneumonia, couldn't figure out how file an amended return online so mailed it in, and got the a letter while the paper version was still waiting in processing queue. And another for some minor issue. All for low 3 figures, and all eventually resolved in my favor. Never anything remotely close to mid 4 figures. In each case, I included a check for the requested amount along with my letter of dispute and documentation, in order to not accumulate more interest and penalty if I lost. And each was eventually refunded with better interest than my bank accounts were paying. The IRS pays the same interest rate for these overages that it charges for late payments.
One year, when I filed paper forms, I got am amended form from my mortgage company the same day I mailed the return. Of course, I needed to file an amended return
Yeah, I studied the whole documented appeal process, where I'd have had to get the right form, and compose the right kind of appeal letter, and send it to the right address, and wait to hear from the right judge, and so on, and I finally wondered what would happen if I walked into the local office with a copy of the form they thought I hadn't sent, and the guy there was able to scan it in and add it to the record, and print me a letter saying everything was taken care of, and I thanked him and went home.
