Originally Posted by
Fourpaw
You can be as anal as you want but the facts are you have around a 1% chance of being audited. They are going after the big dogs not people making 70k and not depreciating their Dell laptop correctly. The IRS is a business. They want the big dogs.
I've had two family member making less than 100k audited. Both "won" their audit but spent a good deal of time and money fighting it.
Deduct everything you want but don't put on blinders and think that there is no chance you'll get caught. Its a calculated risk.