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by ratg13 1264 days ago
They already do your taxes for you. This is how they know if your returns are off or not.

The only difference is that in the rest of the world, they show you the calculation the government came up with first.

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> They already do your taxes for you.

They have no way of knowing what all your business expenses are (especially ones that don't require sending the recipient one of the various Form 1099s). They can look at what you claim as business expenses and retroactively require you to show proof of those expenses (i.e., audit you) if they seem unreasonable, but that's an entirely different thing.