Stolen Identity
I bet you thought I fell off the face of this Earth with hardly any blog posts. Trust me, I did fall off the face of this Earth. Literally! Over the past few months, or technically since I have submitted my tax returns, someone has been seriously messing with my identity. Annette Kniola is no longer a safe name. I have bent over backwards and still do to this day to clear my name up. It has started with a someone using my name and submitting "my" own 2014 tax returns before I got a chance to submit my own. One thing I have learned is a big red flag goes up at the IRS if you have filed joint for many many years, then one year you file single. Right there was a flag for "both" of my tax returns. Luckily for that, I suppose. But the audacity for someone to use my name, social security, address, and trying to submit one child as a write off still blows my mind! Thankfully, when I did got the letter from the IRS back in April that I needed to pr