I’ve seen some pretty messed up instructions on my tax forms, but this one took the cake:

If your child is presumed by law enforcement to have been kidnapped by someone who is not a family member, you may be able to take the child into account in determining your eligibility for child tax credit.

So I’ve gone half insane because my daughter has been abducted by a whack job and could now be lying dead in a ditch somewhere, but don’t worry, I can still claim a tax break from the government! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Who in the blue F*&# at the IRS writes this crap?