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NOTE: Just found this while searching newspaper archives. If this has already been posted, please let me know. Thank you.

Jan. 30, 1999 Associated Press

Computer glitch brings `death,' taxes to workers

DALLAS - It was a wayward `X,' not Y2K, that declared 15,000 Dallas city employees dead on their W-2 forms. Dallas controller Eric Kaalund said tax forms distributed Thursday with paychecks were a new form printed with an old computer program. As a result, the X for the "pension" box appeared in the space denoting "deceased." The Internal Revenue Service, however, gets its Dallas municipal payroll data off a tape, so the glitch would not be noticed, Kaalund said Friday.

And yes, the "dead" employees still have to pay their taxes, he said.

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-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 28, 2000

Answers

LOLOLOL...I just noticed the date on this. It is outdated, please disregard it. Once again my eyes got buggy from too much research and I ended up LQQING like this ===> ( @ -@ )

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 28, 2000.

Hell, Dee,state government employees here have been mostly dead since we declared ourselves a state. It's almost a condition of employment.

-- another government hack (keepwatchin_2000@yahoo.com), February 28, 2000.

trouble is civil servants (as we call 'em) are unfortunately only brain dead, they're still able to turn up to their offices to while the time away (as only they see fit)

death and taxes......

-- Sir now Lord Richard (richard.dale@unum.co.uk), February 29, 2000.

Interesting comments.

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 29, 2000.