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Tax Return: A Case Study

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You have presented great points in why the lottery winner should not falsify his tax return by utilizing other family members’ losses to offset his win. The fines, penalties and interest if the fraud comes to the forefront is an expensive risk.
Another factor to declaring the other family members’ losses is that if the tax return is audited, proof of the losses has to be verified. The losses have to be documented per the IRS. The gambler needs to keep a diary or log book and record the date of each loss or win, name and address of the gambling facility, exact types of bets made, amount won or loss each time and names of people they are with at the time. (2016)
An interesting piece of information I found is that using other peoples’ losing

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