RI issues tax refunds signed by Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse
Source: ABC News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island mistakenly sent more than 175 tax refund checks signed by Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, rather than the state treasurer and controller.
The Rhode Island Division of Taxation uses the signatures on test files, which were mistakenly printed on the real checks and sent out on Monday, a spokesperson told WPRI-TV.
No other signature lines were printed besides the two, said Jade Borgeson, chief of staff for the Rhode Island Department of Revenue, which includes the taxation division. Mickey Mouse is the cartoon character that was animator and producer Walt Disney's first big hit.
The checks were tax refunds for corporate, sales and tax credits mostly to businesses, WJAR-TV reported.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/ri-issues-tax-refunds-signed-walt-disney-mickey-72103275?cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed
The Mickey Mouse checks have been voided and properly signed ones will be issued within a week.
(I know this isn't earth shattering news, but figured many of us could use a good chuckle right now).
ZZenith
(4,110 posts)groundloop
(11,488 posts)Demonaut
(8,909 posts)pbmus
(12,418 posts)Kickass mind blowing....and a story you can tell for the rest of your life...
lastlib
(22,981 posts)took a somewhat ratty-looking shirt and wrote "Pay to the order of Internal Revenue Service" with the amount of his taxes owed, just as you would on a check, and signed his name on it. Implying that IRS was taking the shirt off his back.
But it constituted a legal check, and we cashed it and it somehow cleared the banks.
appalachiablue
(41,055 posts)some people in the law field told me. It was also legal and quite a statement.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)by admin 25.10.2013 2012/09
This photo recreates the famous case.
This story was written by UK barrister A. P. Herbert and is found in his book "More Misleading Cases in the Common Law". It details a courts legal decision on whether a man, angry at having to pay a disputed tax bill, can pay his tax bill by using a cow as a check.
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The case of the negotiable cow is a satirical story that first appeared in the UK humor magazine Punch in the early 1900s. In 1930, it was first published in book form.
Nothing in it is true.
However, because of their realistic style, many of Mr. Herberts stories have been thought to be true.
More: https://www.deceptology.com/2012-09/can-you-cash-check-written-on-cow.html
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)But if Mickey Mouse runs for president, he would beat tRump easily. I've had a number of former tRumpers say, "I'd sooner vote for Mickey Mouse than tRump again."
Wolf
Hotler
(11,353 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)I used to work at the IRS. Mickey Mouse,and Mickey Mouse in Italian for some reason, were surprisingly common on checks sent in in payment, and were also sometimes used as the name of the taxpayer on tax returns. I dont know why taxpayers identify with him. And what the hell is with the Italian? I dont recall any other false name used.