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Silence!!! I Kill You!!!
Ok, our horse farm was being audited for tax year 2004, and within 1 1/2 hours of an audit scheduled for 2 days, the auditor said we were not a business, and decided to audit 2003 as well. We did the old thing, talked to his supervisor (I kid you not, the supervisors name was Muhammed Ali )and got another auditor to come and do a real audit. BUT the damage was done and we still had to continue being audited with 2003 as well as 2004. NOW, we haven't even finished the audit on those two years, and yesterday in the mail we received a letter from ANOTHER IRS agent, at another office all together, saying that they are going to audit 2005, and have the 2004 books ready as he may audit those as well. We did the thing again and are trying to get the 2005 audit sent to the same guy currently working 2003 and 2004.
1st off, is anyone else dealing with this type of crap? ...
and, if anyone is given notice of an audit on their horse business, I will gladly GIVE you a copy my reply to the IRS, complete with successful tax court cases for reference. We are beating the irs, but it is a pain. Also, for those of you in horse business, I can gladly send you a list of the 9 criteria the IRS uses to judge if you are a hobby or a business, so you can protect yourself in (or if you guys want I can post it in the forums!)
1st off, is anyone else dealing with this type of crap? ...
and, if anyone is given notice of an audit on their horse business, I will gladly GIVE you a copy my reply to the IRS, complete with successful tax court cases for reference. We are beating the irs, but it is a pain. Also, for those of you in horse business, I can gladly send you a list of the 9 criteria the IRS uses to judge if you are a hobby or a business, so you can protect yourself in (or if you guys want I can post it in the forums!)