I'm facing an IRS audit over the fact that approximately $11,000 in itemized business expenses I thought I was entering as expenses associated with my (joint-filing) wife's 2017 FREELANCE WRITER/EDITOR business -- e.g., air travel and hotel costs associated with a European writer's conference she attended, computer equipment purchases and home office supplies -- appeared instead in a Form 2106 EZ (Unreimbursed Employee Business Expenses) and in our Schedule A as Employee Business Expenses. I was so trusting of TurboTax and confident from previous similar filings that I did not check the 1040 & associated forms before I filed them electronically. Now, a year later, the IRS has sent us a polite letter with a Form 886-I (EBE Explanation of Items) and wants to see company-letterhead authorizations for each of the expenses, which, of course, we can't provide, since they were expenses incurred by my wife in her home-based editing enterprise. I've retraced my entries in the 2017 TurboTax program and don't see where I might have erred, or where the TT-Home & Business program might have erred. Any suggestions, before I talk to the IRS? I've got two weeks to figure this out before their clerks "recalculate" our 2017 return. Thanks !
