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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home? by rada on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @11:02AM (#1491163)
From IRS perspective, your filings are taken on faith, while during an audit, you are expected to have records to back up those filings.

Perhaps this article will explain my previous link more clearly:

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/04/02/afraid-of-an-audit-...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your physical documents at home? by ydant on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @02:14PM (#1494911)
Yes, records, but not paper records. Your latest link again reinforces the idea that you can keep scanned copies. Earlier it seemed like your point was you shouldn't scan/destroy tax records because you need paper copies in an audit. I don't see anything that agrees with that.

I keep paper copies of my tax filings because it's easy enough to do. I'm just not seeing where, if my digitals never disappear, I need those paper copies to comply with the law.

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