Discussion:The T&E Audit Solution!
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Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 7 October 2009 |
| http://www.expenseasteak.com/
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/10/05/can-expense-a-steak-save-the-restaurant-industry/ Do you think the IRS is watching? | |
| 7 October 2009 | |
| Great. Like I didn't spend enough time scrutinizing the expense reports for my sales guys... | |
| 7 October 2009 | |
| I hope the IRS is watching, but how do you stop all of the copycats who will surely follow? | |
| 7 October 2009 | |
| I noticed two things. First, the cashier at the office supply store is always "Kevin". Coincidence? Second, the variable often seems to be wire desk trays at $5.78 each. This, like many other tax fraud schemes, will probably work if used sparingly. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. | |
| 7 October 2009 | |
| Kevin sells a heck of a lot of those wire desk trays. Everyone needs a couple dozen. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 7 October 2009 |
| I did not realize the steak industry was in trouble.
I can think of at least five high roller places in downtown Philly, one of which occupies the ground floor where I have my office. The owners bought the name of a defunct local stock brokerage firm. | |
| 7 October 2009 | |
| Usually, Kevin is the "tech geek" at our office supply store.
I think this is funny. I highly doubt the IRS cares as no one in Hawaii, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, etc. is going to download these receipts, but I am sure they are keeping an eye on the site. It's going to be Wall Street types, big city areas they will be watching. They probably get reimbursed for entertainment. I can't imagine anyone trying to justify purchasing $2,000 worth of paper clips to their accounting department. Tom | |
| 7 October 2009 | |
| This shows how stupid the Wall Street Journal is. They think it's cute.
Restaurant "sits at 50th and Park, in the heart of expense account country, footsteps away from the likes of Citigroup, Blackstone and Morgan Stanley… but with CFOs keeping tabs on every cent, it takes guts to turn in a receipt from a huge meal.” This is like saying: "Yes, Virginia, it's true, we are as corrupt as you think we are." The only outright lie in the article, of course, is this "CFOs keeping tabs on every cent." <barf> But, is this the kind of publicity Wall Street needs? Ironically, this might be the most honest article the WSJ has printed about the financial industry in years, other than the above-mentioned lie that crept into the story. Oh well, another footnote in the continuing saga of how a great country becomes a Banana Republic. | |
Harry Boscoe (talk|edits) said: | 7 October 2009 |
| VISA card *and* AmEx card *both* end with -6810!! Not likely!! And the *date* of the top left receipt is illegible. These receipts would be rejected in *nano-seconds* at the place where I don't work anymore. | |
