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Emily and I had our 2006 tax returns amended last year to our great benefit and the IRS is just getting around to sending us our refund. Today we got a letter in the mail that says the refund will be coming sometime in the next 6 to 8 weeks… I think. To be honest, the language of the letter is a little confusing. I submit for you Candleblog readers the actual, verbatim language (including case and punctuation) on the cover page of the mailing we received today from the IRS. Perhaps you can make heads or tails out of it…

CUT OUT AND RETURN THE VOUCHER IMMEDIATELY BELOW IF YOU ONLY HAVE AN INQUIRY. DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE MAKING A PAYMENT.

CUT OUT AND RETURN THE VOUCHER AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE IF YOU ARE MAKING A PAYMENT, EVEN IF YOU ALSO HAVE AN INQUIRY.

Got that? Emily and I have neither an inquiry nor a payment to make, so I guess we do… nothing? Perhaps with Obama’s commitment to “transparency” he can get his treasury dept. to fix some of this opaque language. Sheesh.