After receiving what I needed from the msc's and filing last week, I got my refund this morning. That was fast! They had no problem with my expenses. I'm a small fry in their books I guess.

When Obama took office he basically said in a nutshell, "If you make less than $100K we're not going to audit you." That and as odd as your taxes may look to you they really are quite normal!

Lucky you to get a refund, I have to pay this year. This state is brutal.

I had to pay the business tax but still came out ahead.

I live in Texas and I do a lot of driving here so I chopped my mileage expense by a 1/3 The IRS is happy with that. I didn't declare all my expenses either like printer ink, pens, paper etc.

The IRS is years behind on their audits. I was audited for 2011 this year, and just went through fixing my taxes for 2011 and 2012, and paying the taxes and the late fees. At least it wasn't for mystery shopping.

I know which state Cettie speaks of. All these taxes and miserable weather to boot.

treydawgmt Wrote:
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> When Obama took office he basically said in a
> nutshell, "If you make less than $100K we're not
> going to audit you." That and as odd as your
> taxes may look to you they really are quite
> normal!

Obama doesn't run the IRS. (He just thinks he does.)

I'm going through a "letter audit" with a client who made only $77,000 and had a lot of medical and employee business deductions and charitable donations. (A letter audit is when the IRS sends you a letter asking for explanations or copies of your receipts, as opposed to coming to get them from you personally.)

She'll be mostly fine; we double deducted $100 in charitable donation due to confusion on a receipt, and she deducted some business gifts that were above the $25 per person limit. But of all the clients I have, she is probably the only one who has every receipt for everything she deducts, and it's in reasonable order. Just time consuming to recap it, copy it, and assemble it to send to the IRS.

Lesson for everyone here: save those receipts!

treydawgmt Wrote:
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> When Obama took office he basically said in a
> nutshell, "If you make less than $100K we're not
> going to audit you." That and as odd as your
> taxes may look to you they really are quite
> normal!


Yeah, right.

I just finished perparing our taxes and things are not looking good. I lost two month's wages due to family situations and we did not hit the 7.5% GYI medical deduction like we did last year. Our mortgage deduction is still in place, but our local politicians here in CA. are trying to chip away at that in their desperation to pay down the deficit and start even more free social service/medical programs for the "needy" (that I do not enjoy) and environmental programs to re-route the dams to save the beloved "smelt".

My daughter had a great story this year. The SS Adm. deducted about $600 from their refund this for a SS overpayment.

To top it off, when she went to the local SS office to inquire what the deduction was for she was told it was an overpayment from THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO - way back when she was only 20. Her Dad died when she started nursing school so we received SS payments for her. Then I moved from PA to NM and we had her SS payments automatically deposited to her checking account in PA. It was a long time ago and our memories our not good with the sequence of events but she did complete nursing school and one semester of college. In January that year she decided she wanted to come to live in NM with me and dropped out of school.

The woman she spoke to at the SS office was so nasty and kept asking how much she had gotten, and my daughter kept telling her she didn't remember as it was so long ago and that she was just a kid at the time. The woman made a comment that SS is running out of money and it's because of "people like you." When my daughter said she had no knowledge of the overpayment the woman then said "your mother probably took the money and put it in her account." At that point, my daughter tried to explain that was not the way things went in our home and her mother would never do that. After she got home, her husband was so angry he called Washington, DC, to complain. Later she did get a call from the manager of the local office apologizing for the SS woman's behavior.

To make the story more interesting, shortly after that, I was watching a news story about unclaimed money. I went online and starting checking my family names and found funds in her name that are "over $100" in an account in Phila. where she went to school. She said she thought there was only $5 left in the account when she moved from PA to be with me here in NM and she hadn't bothered to close the account. She's gotten the documentation together to send to the PA bank and we're hoping that the three months (Jan, Feb and Mar) that the SS Adm. says she got maybe were automatically deposited.

Wow. Our tax dollars at work here -- paying that woman's salary so she can make honest citizens feel like dirt.

dspeakes Wrote:
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> Wow. Our tax dollars at work here -- paying that
> woman's salary so she can make honest citizens
> feel like dirt.

I am surprised at the apology.........so much effort involved.