A Colorado couple on Thursday became the latest taxpayers to mistakenly send their amended income-tax information to House Republicans instead of the Department of Revenue.
House Minority Leader Mike May, R-Parker, estimated the office has received faxed income- or sales-tax forms at least two dozen times a year the past three years.
Thursday’s fax included the couple’s address, tax ID number and the amount paid in penalties. A form earlier this year involved sensitive sales-tax information from a vendor, said May’s chief of staff, Melissa Baumgart.
It couldn’t have been a misdialed digit. The House fax number begins 303-866; the Revenue number begins 303-205.
Or could it?
When The Denver Post asked the Department of Revenue about the situation Thursday, spokesman Mark Couch said the fax number was the 303-205 number. He later e-mailed to say a second fax number had been found, a 303-866 number only one digit different from the House Republicans’.
Mystery solved. Apparently the taxpayers misdialed or wrote down the number wrong.
May said when he told Democrats about the situation, they were amazed he hadn’t gone to the press before.
“We were hoping to get Ritter’s tax returns,” he joked, referring to Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter.
