{"id":1204,"date":"2016-01-29T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2016-01-29T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:33:52","slug":"the-dog-ate-my-tax-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cash-receipt.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cash-receipt-300x122.png\" alt=\"cash-receipt\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cash-receipt-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cash-receipt.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Every year people spend hours searching madly for those few missing receipts that will substantiate a tax deduction. \u00a0An IRS audit is a real fear in the United States, one that is portrayed in television shows as a horrific experience. \u00a0But did you know that receipts aren&#8217;t always a requirement when proving your deductible expenses? \u00a0Thanks to past Broadway pioneer George M. Cohan, who paid in cash and fought the system when they denied his claims, we have the Cohan Rule. \u00a0Not the easiest rule to use, you might wind up in court, but good to know in case you ever end up in this situation. \u00a0Still, probably better to just keep saving your receipts.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-headline ng-binding ng-scope\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertwood\/2016\/01\/25\/no-receipts-for-irs-key-tax-case-says-theyre-optional\/#55b48ab92dfb\">No Receipts For IRS? Key Tax Case Says They&#8217;re Optional<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year people spend hours searching madly for those few missing receipts that will substantiate a tax deduction. \u00a0An IRS audit is a real fear in the United States, one that is portrayed in television shows as a horrific experience. \u00a0But did you know that receipts aren&#8217;t always a requirement when proving your deductible expenses? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[534,532,533,69,531,535,201,536],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-broadway","tag-cohan-rule","tag-george-m-cohan","tag-irs","tag-receipts","tag-tax-audit","tag-taxes","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}