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the hardest part with tax
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issues is that it is so
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facts driven that many people may come
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in the office and say
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i’m right i just know i’m right and
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that the government is wrong here and so
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the hard part is to sit down with the
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client
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and to pull out the facts to develop
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literally a binder of evidence
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a wonderful example i had was somebody
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who was in the united states who come
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from the middle east
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and he had a farming business
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and the middle east they don’t have the
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same concepts accounting records they
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literally have
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the old concept of books of record books
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of account
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and you’d go the old expression as a man
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as honest as his books
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meant that the person kept a ledger book
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about what you owed him and what you
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paid him
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so we literally had to take that to show
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that there was a trade or business
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ground we had to take
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these books overseas and create records
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that the u.s would understand to
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document that the person had
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expenses not just income but in expenses
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to deduct the instant challenge is
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factual development
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and while that seems a very exotic type
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example
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it can be very mundane as to just
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somebody saying
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i had expenses and i need to document
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the receipts
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or my income isn’t what the irs or the
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franchise talks about
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thought it was and we’re trying to
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create the documents to show to the
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the authority and get them in order they
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will accept
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them for for making a determination