{"id":875,"date":"2011-08-04T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2022-08-26T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:56:30","slug":"common-irs-audit-adjustments-in-arizona-irs-help-from-tax-debt-advisors-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/common-irs-audit-adjustments-in-arizona-irs-help-from-tax-debt-advisors-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Common IRS Audit Adjustments in Arizona:  IRS help from Tax Debt Advisors, Inc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>\u00a0IRS Audit Adjustments in Arizona<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Auditors will consider all deposits to your bank account as income.\u00a0 Keep records of gifts from parents, refunds on returned merchandise and other similar transactions to show the auditor why that item was not income.<\/li>\n<li>The most common audit adjustment comes from mileage claimed on the return.\u00a0 If I ever have a client who is audited on mileage that actually has a mileage log that they kept concurrently, will then be able to say, \u201cI have seen everything, now!\u201d\u00a0 Taking actual expenses may be the best way to go if you want to be able to substantial your automobile expenses.<\/li>\n<li>Personal use items.\u00a0 This would be like claiming you use your vehicle 98% for business purposes.\u00a0 That means that you almost never shop for food, take a vacation, go to church, visit friends, or go to the movies.\u00a0 Unless you are Howard Hughes, make your % something reasonable.\u00a0 Believe it or not almost all of my clients who have one car, when I ask them what percent they used the vehicle in the business, the first time, will say \u201c100%.\u201d\u00a0 This extends to home office expense as well.\u00a0 One client tried to convince me he lived in his back yard so he could deduct all of his housing expenses on his schedule C.\u00a0 If you have one phone and it is a cell phone, allocate a reasonable amount for personal use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Errors of the kind mentioned will almost always lead to other years being audited.\u00a0 If have been really out of line you might even get yourself\u00a0 put on the IRS Auditors bulletin board that has this heading\u2014If You Need An Audit To Impress Your Manger Call (your name and phone number)\u2014just kidding, but sometimes it feels that way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Allen E. A. \u2013 Tax Debt Advisors, Inc. helping with IRS Audit Adjustments in Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Common IRS Audit Adjustments in Arizona:\u00a0 IRS help from Tax Debt Advisors, Inc<\/p>\n<p>Apache Junction, Avondale, Bisbee, Buckeye, Bullhead City, Camp Verde, Casa Grande,\u00a0 Catalina, Chandler, Chinle, Chino Valley, Coolidge, Cottonwood, Dewey, Douglas, Eagar, El Mirage, Eloy, Flagstaff, Florence, Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Glendale, Globe, Goodyear, Green Valley, Kingman, Lake Havasu City, Lakeside, Marana, Mesa, Nogales, Oro Valley, Page, Paradise Valley, Payson, Peoria, Phoenix, Pinetop, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Safford, San Luis, Scottsdale, Sedona, Show Low, Sierra Vista, Somerton, Sun City, Sun City West, Sun Lakes, Surprise, Tempe, Thatcher, Tuba City, Tucson, Winslow, Yuma<\/p>\n<p>Apache County, Cochise County, Coconino County, Gila County, Graham County, Greenlee County, La Paz County, Maricopa County, Mohave County, Navajo County, Pima County, Pinal County, Santa Cruz County, Yavapai County, Yuma County<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0IRS Audit Adjustments in Arizona Auditors will consider all deposits to your bank account as income.\u00a0 Keep records of gifts from parents, refunds on returned merchandise and other similar transactions to show the auditor why that item was not income. The most common audit adjustment comes from mileage claimed on the return.\u00a0 If I ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36,26,38,39],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}