I received a letter from the IRS today that reads:
"We are writing to you because there is an error on your 2009 Federal Income Tax Return..."
Then there's a chart that lists the various line items on the return form (including Amount of Overpaid Tax, Penalties, and Interest), the figures I gave, and the figures the IRS has calculated. For everything in the IRS Figures column, it gives $.00 as the figure.
There's another sheet with a "voucher" you're meant to send in with your payment, if there is one.
It seems obvious if every line item for the IRS figures is $0.00 that I don't owe anything, but I just want to make sure I'm reading this right. I know so little about financial/tax stuff like this.
Why have they figured my income and taxable income, etc, as zero?