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Cut-Throat
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So, am I the only one here who keeps at least 7 years of tax data on their computer? That means that I've got applications and data going back to Win 3.x, and tossing out rarely-used applications could be a Bad Thing if I get audited. Of course, I may have worse worries if I get audited....
Maybe,
I have my tax records on paper. My Tax preparer has copies on his computer.
When I was in IT, we often wondered if the IRS wanted to see something that was 6 years old. We had the data backed up on files. But the application software was usually long gone by then. Our plan was that we would have to write some code to pull off any data that they wanted.
A home user is usually SOL when older data needs to be accessed. Most applications will upgrade the data they store so that it can be retrived by their newer programs.