SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM
Those are words you don't hear every day. Rarely, if at all, in fact. We received this notice in the mail a few days ago from the City of Middletown Division of Taxation:Pursuant to the authority granted the undersigned by Section 890.09(b), Ordinance No. 086-22, as amended, City of Middletown, Ohio, you are hereby ordered to appear at the office of the Superintendent of Taxation, One Donham Plaza, Middletown, Ohio on the
30th day of JANUARY 2002, at 11:15AM
to be examined under oath at a hearing concerning your failure to FILE YOUR 2001 CITY OF MIDDLETOWN INCOME TAX RETURN.
You are further directed to bring with you all information necessary to file your return, along with the full remittance due including penalty and interest charges.
Failure to comply with this supoena constitues a violation of said Ordinance subjecting you to a fine of not more than $500.00 or imprisonment not more than 60 days or both, as provided in Section 890.09 thereof.
Signed, Linda Davies Stubbs, Superintendent of Taxation
Issued under the authority of Section 890.09, Ordinance no. 086-22, as amended, City of Middletown, Ohio, by the Superintendent of Taxation.
Mailed: January 15, 2003
I kinda prefer the words Lorem Ipsum better. Or even a summons to perform jury duty.
Update: We went to the Middletown Tax office this morning and took care of the situation. A representative from their office completed our 2001 City of Middletown Income Tax return, and it turned out that we only had to pay a little shy of US$256, which is a lot better than a $500 fine or jail time.
I still wouldn't have minded jury duty that much, though.
3 comments:
I don't know if you'll see this but I was wondering if you just went to the tax office and paid or if you actually had to go to the court? Hoping to avoid that myself.
We wound up going to the tax office and had it taken care of. Most municipalities want to help residents out.
>"Most municipalities want to help residents out."
Yes... out of as much money as they can extract from them.
After returning from a trip, I just got one of these a couple weeks *after* I was supposed to appear, and spent all Easter weekend sweating bullets and worried about an arrest warrant as I was driving around town.
Same thing happened to my next door neighbor, who tried to assure me it could all be handled with a phone call on Monday. To be fair, that's all it took; the lady was very nice, helpful, and everything easily handled via a ten-minute phone call.
But the bullyish 'mind game' seems like an over-the-top Psy-Op by the City, who act like sharks in a bathtub, then wonder why nobody wants to live or work in Middletown anymore.
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