Re:Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety (2013)
by latchkey on Sunday September 03, 2023 @01:40PM
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I had a bank account emptied by the US govt.
The California state board of equalization (SBOE) decided that since I hadn't filed and paid taxes in Cali for a few years, that they'd just empty one of my bank accounts to collect on me. Why didn't I pay taxes? Well, I moved to Vietnam and didn't know that I still had to file a $0.
Zero warning or notice. They just emptied it. Bank even charged me a couple hundred for this 'service' on top of it.
Even after I cleared up the issue with them via my EA, I've never gotten the money back. Luckily, they hit one of my bank accounts that had a small amount of money in it, enough to not get dinged fees by the bank for them holding my money. I was only using that account to transfer money back and forth to Vietnam.
The California state board of equalization (SBOE) decided that since I hadn't filed and paid taxes in Cali for a few years, that they'd just empty one of my bank accounts to collect on me. Why didn't I pay taxes? Well, I moved to Vietnam and didn't know that I still had to file a $0.
Zero warning or notice. They just emptied it. Bank even charged me a couple hundred for this 'service' on top of it.
Even after I cleared up the issue with them via my EA, I've never gotten the money back. Luckily, they hit one of my bank accounts that had a small amount of money in it, enough to not get dinged fees by the bank for them holding my money. I was only using that account to transfer money back and forth to Vietnam.
So yea... I'm with you.