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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Things IRS Won't Tell You #3
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 20:12:55 EST
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> So you don't have to give the IRS any records if they try to audit you.
> So what.  This is about as silly as the first message about how you don't
> have to file forms, and you go into it an great and ponderous length.
> These tid bits are of some interest, but if you look at the income tax
> statute, it imposes taxes at the maximum rate on income.  Then it lets
> you take some deductions, etc., if you can prove it.  If you won't submit
> your records for audit, you can expect to get deductions you are refusing
> to prove disallowed, etc., and eventually have the IRS, with the force
> of law, seize what it thinks your taxes are.

Showing them proof that your deductions are legitimate is different from
letting them go fishing through your books "looking."

-Ron