Four months after Caroline Smythe married her second husband, she got a notice from the Internal Revenue Service. The government was keeping $1,600 of her tax refund because her husband owed back taxes.
When she asked him about it, he blamed his ex-wife for not filing their returns properly. Then, a few months later the IRS put a levy on their joint bank account and froze the funds. Her husband again blamed his ex-wife. But it turns out that withheld taxes weren’t being paid to the IRS.
