If you happen to get into a tax dispute with the state of New York, do everything you can to address it before they issue a tax warrant against you. Because once they do that, as soon as your warrant comes up in the queue, they will find out where you do your banking and take however much they say you owe them, all at once. If you don't have enough, they will drain your account to zero and anything else you put into the account will go to them until they have what they want. If you're very lucky, you might be able to talk them into sorting out the problem in a less cash-intensive way, but it will take several business days to process everything between the tax department and the bank, and in the meantime, you have nothing.
I really, really hope I don't run out of heating oil this weekend.
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