I'm a part-time musician who made close to $9K last year and had expenses of about $2800 due to some new instrument purchases. I've been working as a musician for six years but this year Illinois sent me a "Request for Business Income or Loss Verification" and they want me to send a copy of Schedule C, 1099-MISC forms, sales slips, ledger pages of income and expenses, etc. Any reason I shouldn't send them all of this info? They say if I don't I'll be audited. I did purchase the audit protection from Turbotax. Let me know. Thanks.
When you reply to the request you should provide the following:
In an audit, you would be required to produce the same documents, may as well send them now.
Yes, the audit protection only comes into play if you are audited ... right now the return is being processed and they are asking for supporting documents. Failure to provide the docs now will just draw out the process for months.
When you reply to the request you should provide the following: