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What circumstances will they pay you interest? That has never happened to me. Because this year I got hit by some underpayment penalties (with interest added o

• perl4ever 8y ago
  Once I was getting a background check in which I had to certify all my debts to the government were paid. I realized that several years back, I had worked at a temp job for a very brief time and I probably never got a W-2 and therefore never paid taxes on it. Thus, I called up the IRS, got the W-2 information which they had, and duly filed an amended return with a check for something like $20. However, in a rather short amount of time, I got a letter from the IRS stating that they could not accept a payment for a return more than a couple years old and here was a check for the amount, plus interest. So I can tell you they not only pay interest on your money, but they pay it on money they are returning even though you actually owed it.