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Tax time’s coming up and it’s no Turbo Tax EZ form for a junk man. Try on a schedule C, Schedule SE and Form 4562 – Depreciation and Amortization. Did Sanford and Son have to go through all these hoops?
When you hit the IRS website to download these forms, look for this one: Application for Reward for Original Information. It appears to be the form a whistleblower fills out when he or she collects from the IRS for turning in a tax cheat. How many of these canaries forget to include their IRS kickback on their income? There are no readily available figures online, but surely it’s happened at least once.