Waitress Gets an Unexpected Half-Million Dollar Tax Refund
Geo Beats
2012-06-07
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Waitress Gets an Unexpected Half-Million Dollars Tax Refund - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
What was your tax refund this year? I bet it wasn't as big as what Virgina Hopkins received in the mail.
Virginia Hopkins was among the world’s luckiest women, although her lucky streak only lasted a day.
Virginia, a Cleveland waitress at Johnny's Downtown Restaurant for nearly 20 years, recently got a tax refund check from the IRS for nearly $435,000. Although the check was made out to her, it was an error on behalf of the revenue department.
The very sweet waitress did not hesitate before deciding to return the check to the IRS, saying ‘,"They'll put me in Alactraz, waiting on the night shift at Alcatraz… They'll reopen the place.",
She did have to provide a picture ID before returning the uncashed piece of paper worth nearly half a million bucks! Virginia further noted that ‘It's not easy being poor after you've been rich.”
In this particular scenario, she would have been in trouble if she had kept the money. But what would you do if you found a large sum of money and there were no legal ramifications?
What was your tax refund this year? I bet it wasn't as big as what Virgina Hopkins received in the mail.
Virginia Hopkins was among the world’s luckiest women, although her lucky streak only lasted a day.
Virginia, a Cleveland waitress at Johnny's Downtown Restaurant for nearly 20 years, recently got a tax refund check from the IRS for nearly $435,000. Although the check was made out to her, it was an error on behalf of the revenue department.
The very sweet waitress did not hesitate before deciding to return the check to the IRS, saying ‘,"They'll put me in Alactraz, waiting on the night shift at Alcatraz… They'll reopen the place.",
She did have to provide a picture ID before returning the uncashed piece of paper worth nearly half a million bucks! Virginia further noted that ‘It's not easy being poor after you've been rich.”
In this particular scenario, she would have been in trouble if she had kept the money. But what would you do if you found a large sum of money and there were no legal ramifications?
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