Last year, checks for something like $73 million in 
2004 income tax refunds were returned to the IRS from 84,290 taxpayers who moved without updating their address. So says the Internal Revenue Service.
The amount owed averaged out to $871 and change – each! It seems to me that for $871, a guy could remember to let the IRS know he was moving. Because the move had to occur between the day the taxes were filed and April 15. Isn’t that right? You do your taxes, you know you’re getting a refund, you move, you don’t tell the IRS? Or at least have your mail forwarded?
They say that “God is in the details.” I don’t know what that means, but it must fit here. There are so many seemingly small details that we face everyday, but they can have such big consequences. We can’t afford to just let too many of them slip our minds. Get a sticky note or something.
