How to Avoid an Audit

This article is a font of mis-information. There is no way you can avoid a tax audit. A certain percentage of the cases that are audited are pulled at random by a piece of software that is not subject to how or what you filed in the way of numbers. Once that random case(s) is pulled, in you go for a audit no matter what. Yes its true the chance of your file being pulled for a audit are miniscule but there is that chance.

Just get invited to join Barack Hussein Obama's cabinet. All those tax cheats skate free.

The IRS should go after our congress for once!

I am a farmer that leases my land out to hunters, get paid in cash, sometimes earn up to $14000. There is no way the IRS will find it out, never got called in on a audit. It is a safe way to avoid taxes.

Claiming your cats or dogs as dependents plus the kids may raise some red flags.

Im a self employed roofer who owns a small company. Because im self employed i have to pay 15% of my income to social security while being told when it comes time to draw it back it wont bethere. 27 percent for personal. So my cpa tells me im at 42%. Really!!
Im, not the sharpest tax in the box but i wonder if this is why big companys move across seas. I rent my home, i have three trucks all under 1995s my granddaughter is 4 and lives with me. I paid 28,000 in taxes this year. Now there talking about gas going to $5 a gallon. No relief in sight but i love my country and i get up everyday to go to work. God bless America!!

I paid $19K in fees to Ebay and Paypal last year. I didn't get $19k in service.

As a sole proprietor on Ebay, I have now come to realize that 15% in Ebay/Paypal fees and 25-30% in State and Federal tax is a rather unfeasible way to make a living.

No wonder Ebay and Amazon fought the internet taxes. They were playing on a whole different level. We'll see how much of their seller base disappears after this April 15 when everyone realizes 15% in seller fees on these sites is a real milk-job.

If people payed every penny they were expected to there would be nothing left. Did you purchase cigarettes in another state? your supposed to pay your states taxes on those cigarettes. Did you win $20 on a scratch off ticket? The government wants that. Did you mow a few yards over the summer for some extra income? Win fifty at the casino? Receive a prize or gift worth anything? They want that too. Government for the people my #$%$

Why don't politicians pay a progressive income tax on all that free money they receive as campaign donations...Maybe they would have a better understanding of all Americans and small businesses if they followed the same rules and were not above the rules.
Just think, maybe the National debt could be paid off during this election year if all campaign donations were subject to the 15% + 38% tax that a sole propriator is forced to pay.

The best way to avoid an audit is to realize that the governance is so powerful. Therefore don't try to steal from a thief.

Electronic payment processors like PayPal are only reporting to the IRS if you have 200 received payments and $20k or more in sales for the year. This article makes it seem like they are reporting everything and could be scaring people lol. Of course you should be reporting everything anyway blah blah blah

The first statement is UnAmerican, IRS, handing out nightmares. Our founding fathers first saw that the We The People demanded taxation through representation, although somewhere along the way We The People allowed our representation to do as their greed filled souls desired. We can cry, pout, whine, but, the truth remains, We The People must clean up our mess.

I think reporting earnings from ebay or anything else that you sale is a bunch of crap!! I'm talking about used stuff that's already had taxes paid on it. It seems that wouldnt be any of their business .

Why should we live in fear of a Tax Audit? Sounds more like the Soviet Union than the United States of America. Taxing income is nothing more than redistribution of wealth. Picking winners and losers has become the game of choice for Washington DC.

Technically, you should probably report income from having a yard sale, but who's going to do that?

It's "pastime", not "past time."

Proofreading--an extinct skill.

duh, duh, duh!

so you have to pay taxes when you buy and sell?????

Honesty is not always the best policy. Who should be audited is the people preparing the taxes. Many of them are just putting in numbers and submit and the IRS accepts it, so when you get your return if there's a mistake that the preparer made, you're responsible, meanwhile; you call to report it and I still got Audited. And this person was a accountant. Maybe instead of becoming a RN I could!!!!!