Just now when we were discussing a bid I e-mailed an hour or so ago, my compadre reminded me of a suit for non-payment filed against a customer by the company we worked for at the time. We both dragged out our old computers from over a year back, and the company owner called a nerd place to get all the info from them for the attorney.
The tech they sent got the whole thing off of crashed hard drives-e-mails, contracts, payments, etc- and it only took a few days-and that was a small company with little stand-alone computers with the Windows du jour and nothing fancy. I’m not about to believe the IRS can’t do the same thing...