This may go against your religious wishes, but listing your children with SSNs of public figures may allow you to bypass the IRS computer that checks if the child has a valid SSN listed, without getting SSNs that 'belong to' your children. "Yes, I did name my children Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, in the hopes that they'll grow up facist." Adam Declan McCullagh wrote: | | | ---------- Forwarded message ---------- | Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:12:58 +0000 | From: "David C. Treibs" <sirdavid@ktc.com> | To: "(David C. Treibs)" < (SirDavid@ktc.com)> | Subject: Need Help with IRS Problems | | David C. Treibs | Fredericksburg, TX 78624 | sirdavid@ktc.com | | Hi. | | We are in trouble with the IRS, and we need help. | | For religious reasons (explained below), we do not have Social Security | numbers for our children, the oldest of 4 being 5 years old. | | Last year we sent in our return, as we have always done, without SSNs | for our children. My wife and I do have social security numbers, and we | sent those. IRS sent us a letter saying they were disallowing our | exemptions since we had no SSNs for them. They gave us the opportunity | to contest their disallowance, which we did by sending them our | children's birth certificates; and letters from our parents, and a letter | from our pediatrician, stating the children we claimed were indeed our | children and our dependents. We don't have a problem proving that we are | claiming legitimate dependents. | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume