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groundloop

(11,488 posts)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 09:07 PM Jul 2020

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).
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RI issues tax refunds signed by Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse (Original Post) groundloop Jul 2020 OP
Would still consider those more legit than any signed "Donald J. Trump." ZZenith Jul 2020 #1
How true groundloop Jul 2020 #2
someday they will be very collectible Demonaut Jul 2020 #3
Getting a check from a dead man and an imaginary character would be pbmus Jul 2020 #4
When I worked at IRS, some taxpayer, thinking he was clever (I guess) lastlib Jul 2020 #5
There was a husband who did that after his wife divorced him appalachiablue Aug 2020 #7
Can you cash a check written on a cow? csziggy Aug 2020 #9
He's not running. Wolf Frankula Aug 2020 #6
Collector items, save them. nt Hotler Aug 2020 #8
Taxpayers sometimes send in checks signed by Mickey Mouse Cicada Aug 2020 #10

pbmus

(12,418 posts)
4. Getting a check from a dead man and an imaginary character would be
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 11:47 PM
Jul 2020

Kickass mind blowing....and a story you can tell for the rest of your life...

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
5. When I worked at IRS, some taxpayer, thinking he was clever (I guess)
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 11:53 PM
Jul 2020

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)
7. There was a husband who did that after his wife divorced him
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:39 AM
Aug 2020

some people in the law field told me. It was also legal and quite a statement.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
9. Can you cash a check written on a cow?
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 01:37 PM
Aug 2020
Can you cash a check written on a cow?
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 court’s 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.

<SNIP>

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. Herbert’s 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)
6. He's not running.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:30 AM
Aug 2020

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

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
10. Taxpayers sometimes send in checks signed by Mickey Mouse
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 02:36 PM
Aug 2020

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 don’t know why taxpayers identify with him. And what the hell is with the Italian? I don’t recall any other false name used.

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