<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b6f23a8-4a49-4b51-a866-0e77f93b988d/D28404C7-D22C-4DBE-9736-38F40DA6B9A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-not-to-bring-to-irs-audit.html" href="http://accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-not-to-bring-to-irs-audit.html" style="font-size: 11px;">accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-not-to-bring-to-irs-audit.html"><H3 class="post-title"> <A href="http://accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-not-to-bring-to-irs-audit.html" linkindex="1" set="yes">What Not To Bring To An IRS Audit</A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-not-to-bring-to-irs-audit.html"><DIV>I came across this little article in a sample issue of Bottom Line magazine titled, 'What You Should NEVER Bring to an IRS Audit'. The article states that the most common audit mistake is to bring (and provide) to the auditor past years tax returns. Doing so, the article says, expands audit risk because you are giving the auditor more to look at and thus allowing him to see patterns in income and expenses that might exist. People often supply past returns because the audit notice says to.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://accountinghelpdesk.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-not-to-bring-to-irs-audit.html"><DIV>Apparently there is an IRS rule that states that you are required to provide only the information which pertains to the tax year being audited unless there is an issue with carryover items or the like.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D28404C7-D22C-4DBE-9736-38F40DA6B9A3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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