You can also contact the lender and ask them to correct (or withdraw) the form 1099-C.

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In that event, the sensible depositor would withdraw their money in physical Euro form, pack it into a suitcase and bury it in their garden.

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It lamented the presence of cash machines in casinos, where long queues form at midnight, as customers wait to withdraw the next day's ration of cash.

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Mladjan Dinkic, the governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia, used a form of controlled bankruptcy to close the banks, giving plenty of warning to foreign interbank depositors to withdraw their money.

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