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by logfromblammo 3884 days ago
That required you to have prior knowledge of what you could have deducted. If you didn't have such knowledge, your ignorance might have caused you to pay a higher amount of tax than you otherwise needed to.

This is why automated tax software asks so many questions about potential deductions.

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You fill out a form a couple years in a row you start to notice things?