Originally Posted by jdog View Post
Well in most cases, this is hopefully what will happen. But what I believe is this code essentially gives the IRS carte blanche. The entries in your logs cannot be fully verified. So if they suspect you are being deceptive then they can ask for anything you don't have (because no one will have everything listed) to make you uncomfortable enough to admit to something. It's the same thing they do in an immigration interview. Even if you bring in 90% of the recommended (not required) documentation, they start telling you they want the stuff you didn't bring just to make you squirm.

Getting you to admit to fabricating losses is really their only move since neither party can fully prove the numbers. Not comfortable with this, I prefer things to be more cut and dried.
The Government and different agencies is despicable in some of these intimidation tactics that they employ. When My partner got on disability which was long before I met him he was initially denied. He had been in a severe accident at work, has two operations on his back at the time (more later), was in a full body back brace 24/7 and used two arm canes or crutches to walk. Social security disability sent him to a social security doctor who apparently said he was fine. He had to appeal and hire an attorney, who he says basically did nothing but show up and the intimidation stopped and he was approved.

I have an uncle, my mom's older brother, that as he was slipping into dementia/Alzheimer's was entering into the veterans admin system. I was handling everything at the time, until he was approved and we turned responsibility over to the government. But he was initially denied benefits and admission to a VA facility even though I had worked hard to get everything in order, all his military records and hospital diagnosis ect. Very frustrated I got a hold of someone at the VA who unofficially told me they initially deny almost everyone. And then they find anything and everything missing, t's uncrossed and i's undoted, delaying everything multiple times before things are finally approved.

It isn't hard to figure out what they are doing. If they can delay every case, delay, deny, delay, for a year, 18 months before finally approving, half those people will have passed away and not even get what they are entitled to. And remember these are veterans who served our country. They ARE entitled to these services. It is just disgraceful.