Friday, April 8, 2011

IRS Targets Real Estate Investors!

Calling all Part time Real Estate Investors! It's time to Pay Up!!

Amplify’d from www.investors.com

Real Estate Losses Become IRS Tax Audit Target


By JEFF SCHNEPPER, FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 04/07/2011 04:59 PM ET

Sorry, real estate investor, the Internal Revenue Service is coming to get you, and it won't be pretty.

The IRS is stepping up property scrutiny as a result of a 2008 Government Accountability Office finding: "At least 53% of individual taxpayers with rental real estate activity for Tax Year 2001 misreported their rental real estate activity, resulting in an estimated $12.4 billion of net misreported income."

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