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If you live in one state and buy expensive personal property in another, you could face a sales- and use-tax audit.
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Both Comcast and PPG Industries spent more than 10% of total fees to Deloitte on non-audit related and tax services in 2011 and 2010, for example.
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Care With Forms 1099 Helps Audit-Proof Tax Returns.
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As for an employment tax audit, the IRS is not all-knowing when it comes to employer classification of workers, and its resources are limited.
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On February 13, 2012 one of my clients received the first 2010 CP-2000 (not-an-audit, but an attempt-to-resolve-a-discrepancy) proposing assessment of additional tax for 2010.
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" The Sigar audit, the official added, "does not carefully distinguish between taxable and tax-exempt contracts.
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Its gift and estate tax audit force has been shrinking, even as the number of taxable estates has more than doubled -- to an expected 45, 000 in 1998 from 19, 000 ten years ago.
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Miriam L. Fisher, a tax attorney and partner at law firm Morgan Lewis in Washington, says the audit teams comprise "A-list examiners" drawn from around the country who are knowledgeable and experienced with various financial products and industries.
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But he says the audit was "nerve wracking" because tax law doesn't make it easy to distinguish between full-time staff and independent contractors doing full-time work.
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