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“I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

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Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

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post #24

Honestly, the older I get, the more tempted I am to attach a safe to a corner of my house, close my bank accounts, and just store cash in the safe.

That's what civil asset forfeiture is for. That's drug money you got there you see. (Never mind that if word gets out you will get robbed.)

Yeah, the whole "getting robbed" thing is probably the biggest reason why I probably won't actually end up doing it.

That, and armed guards are not cheap.

Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

#43

Strangely enough, almost this exact same thing happened to me. Apparently I was accountable for my ex-wife's tax bill (for a year in which we were not married) well after our divorce...in a state I never worked in.

Did you wind up having to pay?

Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

#45
Could someone confirm that in this case using local small credit union would give certain protections in similar cases? i.e. credit union with branches in your home state only vs. having branches in most states like Bank of America or Chase does?

Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

#46
post #20

It's shit like this that makes me want Bitcoin or one of the alternatives to succeed. I don't care if it ends up being worth $10 or $50K, as long as many people use it. The banking system is rotten to the core.

The government will take what it wants. If you have a house, they will take it. If you have a car, they will take it. Bits on a hard drive don't help if you can't hold property. They even got the Swiss banks to cough up American accounts.

If you operate in a system of currency you are agreeing to play by their rules. You don't have to do business in America, you can go anywhere you want. Is it harder? Possibly. Will you be a successful? Maybe not. Learn the system if you are going into business, don't just complain because you "don't like taxes".

Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

#48
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its because they never intended to be linked to without the www.

That's not really an excuse. This is a pretty trivial thing to fix (update the cert, or force a redirect).

They do force a redirect on http://becu.org/, but they can't really force a redirect on https://becu.org/, because you would need to accept the mismatched name before you could get the redirect.

Although, I'm surprised they don't have an alternate name, most of the CA's I've worked with recently automatically add the naked domain as an alternate name when you order a cert with www

Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

#49
Yeah, some of the state revenue agencies move very quickly. NY claimed to have sent a notice (prior to their rather good online system they have today) and 14 days later they had taken the money.

Recently I've noticed a lot of very small bills originating from adjustments on years-old returns. These are things that probably should be disputed, but they are coming in at $100-$200, which is far less that I'd pay someone to research for even an hour.

Here's my question: if the revenue department is going to make rounding-error level adjustments, why don't they just send me an advance tax bill, with all of the calculations that I can verify, and I'll just pay it?

Re: “I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

#50

I like how this is from 2013 and yet there is still no update on that blog, the linked blog, or anywhere else as far as I can tell...

He obviously had all of his assets frozen and is unable to pay for Internet access any more.
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