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filed their tax return with medical expense and home deductions, however they failed to supply any evidence of the costs associated with these deductions. Furthermore, their return was filed late. Without providing sufficient evidence, your claims are in effect meaningless. The combined effects of these tax blunders result in late filing penalties and unacceptable deductions. CCH (http://intelliconnect.cch.com) reports: The IRS’s disallowance of a couple’s claimed deductions for medical expenses and home mortgage interest was sustained, and the failure to file penalty was imposed, based on the evidence the couple provided. Since the couple failed

file. 4. Accelerate your medical expenses. If you itemize your deductions, there’s a limitation on medical expenses and you may deduct only the amount by which your medical care expenses for the year exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. So if you have any medical procedures or dental procedures that you’re putting off, now is the time to get them done. You don’t have to pay for them necessarily, you can put them on a credit card and just pay the minimum balance on the credit card, but you can take the full deduction of the year that it took place. 5. Pay you’re an extra’s month’s worth of the mortgage. Make your January

that you can just throw your records in a bag, drop it on the auditor’s desk, and shout, “You figure it out!” That just doesn’t work. Remember, it’s your legal responsibility to prove your deductions. Replace missing records. If you’re going through your records and find that some of them are missing, call for duplicates immediately. Don’t just go to the audit and claim that the records are missing or lost. That does you no good at all. At best, the auditor will request that you obtain the records. At worst, the deduction in question will be denied, since there are no supporting documents. Provide only

are entitled to their IRS records through the Freedom of Information Act ; taxpayers should request the IRS to disclose these records in order to prove the expiration of the Statue of Limitations. *Wage garnishment : The IRS analyzes an amount of money a taxpayer would need to survive each week based on the number of dependents claimed and what the pay cycle is; this number is the amount of money the IRS will allow taxpayers to keep. Oftentimes, taxpayers are left with nothing but $170/week. I deal with tax problems every day and this year alone, my firm has successfully negotiated hundreds of IRS settlements at a rate of $0.13 on the

on income he earned from his medical practice. Around 1995, he joined an organization in Denver called Tower Executive Resources. Tower assisted its members in evading federal income taxes, in part by providing a false invoicing scheme to offset income the members’ earned. Lewis’ medical practice paid funds to Tower in exchange for bogus Tower invoices to substantiate huge false business expenses Lewis deducted on the medical practice’s returns. Tower then deposited the bulk of those funds into an offshore bank account, which Lewis controlled. Lewis faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Lewis’ son, Roy Lewis, a dentist

the collections department. As mentioned in the article, if you can’t get your act together in 30 days “You have the right to ask for a postponement, and the IRS should grant such a request if you say you need the time to track down records.” 3. It can help you to have a pro on your side When it comes to dealing with IRS problems , it helps to have a professional tax attorney or certified tax resolution specialist on your side.  Let them provide you with necessary tax help in sticky situations such as an audit . Although 75% of tax audits are done via snail mail, the IRS may request more complicated documentation

According to court records, when Braddy filed his 2003, 2004 and 2005 federal income tax returns, he willfully attempted to evade a large part of the income tax he owed the United States by filing a false and fraudulent U.S. Individual Income Tax Return (Form 1040). For each of the returns he filed, he knew that his total income and the tax due and owing substantially exceeded the amounts he reported. Braddy under reported his income by more than $1.1 million and underpaid his income taxes by $306,906 “This defendant hid $1 million in income and cheated his fellow citizens who pay their fair share of taxes. Now he is going to prison,”

operations at several departments and agencies, including the Treasury department and the IRS. The stopgap funding measure was necessary to allow additional time for Congress to complete action on a $410-billion FY 2009 appropriations package. The omnibus package appropriates $12.7 billion for the Treasury department, including $11.5 billion for the IRS , an increase of $428 million over the IRS’s FY 2008 budget. The IRS budget is $161 million more than the Bush administration request for FY 2009. Final action on the massive omnibus appropriations package met a major roadblock over funding for approximately 8,000 projects, or earmarks,

keep good documents and records of your business so that you can easily prove your employment status when necessary. You also need to be careful about what deductions you claim for your own business. The IRS will grow suspicious of abnormally high business expense deductions for things such as travel, entertainment, and meals. Disclose overseas bank accounts If we learned anything from the UBS crackdown, it’s that no place is safe from the IRS grasp. Even if you don’t have an enormous amount of money abroad, follow the guidelines and IRS rules for disclosure to avoid heavy penalties. If you are in IRS trouble for failure to disclose

Revenue’s compliance department found trouble in the back yard. As of Sept. 30, more than 276,000 federal employees and retirees owe $3.04 billion in back taxes. Federal workers had an overall delinquency rate of 2.9 percent. The department of Housing and Urban Development boasted the highest delinquency rate among employees at just over 4 percent. “It’s not right for a few to shirk their obligations, and it’s especially offensive that Tags: Back Taxes , back taxes owed by federal workers , certified tax resolution specialist , delinquent tax filing , delinquent tax returns , delinquent taxes by federal employees , failure to