For some reason, I thought you returned to the USA?
The answer to that is at least 200 years.
In an age where people not even born yet collect social security, surely the IRS can also claim you owe money from before you were born.
There are a few crimes with no statute of limitation, murder, kidnapping, treason, and defrauding the IRS.
IOW, if they claim a tax return has deliberate fraudulent information they can come after you no matter how long ago it was filed.
Hmmmm - I was always under the impression one needed to keep the last 7 years of tax returns - with any pertinent documentation - but, with folks who haven’t been born yet collecting Social Security, and them wanting to know if you make a transaction of $600 or more, I’d guess they have zero actual time limits - I heard they may go after Paul Revere because he borrowed the horse he rode and never claimed the value of that freebie on any returns...
Back in the 80’s I got a bill letter saying I owed $3500 in back taxes from a Job I had nearly ten years previous.
It contained all kinds of threats if I didn’t pay up immediately.
It turned out that it was supposed to be $3.50 because a person in Payroll at my former employer left of the decimal on their report to the IRS..............
However if YOU overlook a tax deduction in your benefit you only have a few years to correct it (2 or 3 years, I think). Seems unfair.
Hope you kept up with your FBAR filings
Damn strange article given it’s from CBS: I didn’t see a single “Let’s Hate Trump” sentence.
I thought it was seven years.
We save everything anyways.
I DO NOT trust the government.
I was audited in 2019 for my 2017 tax return. They examined everything back to 2010 to make sure that my “cost basis” was correct. They did not adjust my liability further back than 2017...but the changes made were applied to every return up to 2023 (when it finally ended.)
The Commonwealth of MA just came at me for the same thing in 2017. Their policy is not to go back further than 7 years. Unless it’s “meaningful.” I guess that means if you owe THEM money. They were not about to open the subsequent filings where they owed ME money.
I spent four years going back and forth with the IRS. They were always pleasant and professional. I actually won a few rounds.
I called the state DOR and the person I spoke with was such a dolt that I just wrote the check. In that case I could tell it would be another four year adventure and I simply did not have any fight left in me for a minimal outlay of cash.
How far back can the IRS claim you owe money?
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From birth ...
Even after the 10 year statute of limitations has expired, save your tax returns that show you filed. You never can be too careful dealing with a government that wants to collect your money.