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- From: aa473@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James Brown)
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: Home offices deduction case
- Message-ID: <9301231327.AA21953@slc4.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 08:27:30 -0500
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- >>Also, has anyone out there been challenged on the validity of the deduction
- >>during an audit? If so, what happens? Do they actually come at look
- >>at your office?
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- >They can, and do, schedule office audits of home businesses. I got
- >audited, and they asked to come out and see my office. I protested,
- >and eventually got the case turned into a correspondance audit; I sent
- >them photos of the office, and they allowed the deduction.
- >--
- >-- Christophe
- >
- >"Bad analogy! No biscuit!"
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- >
- The IRS used to (may still) hold training classes for small business
- and potential small business owners on how to file the various forms
- and explaining some of the common tax considerations .
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- during the discussion of home offices I ask if having non-business books
- on the "office shelves" and that sort of thing would cause the room to
- fail the exclusive use test.
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- The answer was roughly "If we saw those we might question use". My
- somewhat tongue in cheek reply was " O well since you would have to
- get a warrant to search my home I would have time to move the books."
- the instructor auditor was indignant at the idea that IRS would need
- a warrant to enter my home :-). (I decided to skip the home office
- deduction and got audited two out of three years anyway. So much
- for avoiding Flag items :-) no findings either time. The second
- one was a home audit and I didn't insist on a warrant it beat driving
- sixty miles like the first time.)
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- Jim Brown
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