{"id":31236,"date":"2013-09-04t08:23:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-04t12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=31236"},"modified":"2015-12-16t09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16t14:19:30","slug":"the-irs-and-big-data-gone-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2013\/09\/04\/the-irs-and-big-data-gone-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"the irs and big data gone bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

bookkeeping data is notoriously unreliable. so why is the irs relying on it?<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>by frank stitely
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sk cpas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cplease give me a copy of your 1099-misc forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

the irs agent was a 25-year-old woman, with only a couple of years of experience dealing with my client.<\/p>\n

my client was the \u201chow-dare-you-question-me?-i\u2019m-a-taxpayin\u2019,-god fearin\u2019-american\u201d type of client \u2013 one of those guys \u00a0who think the marlboro man is a wimp.<\/p>\n

but he had a tax problem. he was being audited and he had thrown out all of his paper records when he moved his office.<\/b><\/p>\n

missing 1099-misc<\/b><\/p>\n

he didn\u2019t have copies of his 1099-misc forms.\u00a0 so he had his bookkeeper reprint them from quickbooks.\u00a0 i gave them to the irs agent.<\/p>\n

\u201cmr. stitely, these 1099 forms don\u2019t match what we have in our records.\u201d read more →<\/a><\/p>\n