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View submission: Arts tax… here we go again!
The short answer is no, they have no idea what you owe. I got a letter from the Revenue Bureau last year telling me I owed $100 from 2016, 2017, and 2018. How they got 3 x 35 = 100 is still a mystery.
I went to my bank (my old bank because I had closed the account years ago) to get copies of the old checks. I remembered I wrote "201x Arts Tax" in the memo line because I had anticipated problems. As soon as I told the teller that I was looking for any check in the amount of $35 he said "oh, is this for the art tax?" because apparently this happens a lot.
Anyway I sent in copies of the canceled checks and got a letter back basically saying, yeah you're right, looks like you did pay.
KEEP YOUR RECORDS. They'll send you to collections over this shit, it's infuriating.
There's nothing here!