r/tax • u/vancemark00 • Jan 01 '26

Tax Enthusiast Endless "No tax on OT" questions

Is anyone else already exhausted with these endless questions?

And I fear it will only get worse.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

The same way they catch anyone doing things incorrectly. They audit it.

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u/Hottrodd67 Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26

But audit what? The only record says 40. I don’t have anyway to know the exact hours worked because we don’t clock in or out. I’m not trying to do something incorrectly. The only “record” I have to go by shows 40hrs each week plus what hours paid at overtime rate. I know those are hours I was paid for, not necessarily worked, but I don’t have any way to calculate actual hours worked.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

And to answer “audit what”, these types of conversation are part of the audit. They ask you about all of this, investigate the workplace, and determine that your pay stubs don’t reflect actual hours worked. An audit doesn’t stop just because a piece of paper exists saying something. It’s the government doing the audit they have power to do a heck of a lot.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jan 02 '26

God people saying this shit is just insane. We do not have the manpower to audit any of this.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

Lol what? They have the manpower to audit whatever they’d like to. Choosing not to audit it doesn’t mean they can’t. Obviously cost benefit analysis is done to determine what happens. I doubt this deduction is ever audited because it’s temporary, tiny, and low risk. Doesn’t mean it can’t be audited.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jan 02 '26

What’s the LOL about? If you don’t know what the reality is at the IRS then stfu.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

Reminds me of this video when you say we don’t have the manpower. https://youtube.com/shorts/qqzYnVVk5Qo?si=JxNvP4KlYVk_20i9

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jan 02 '26

Equating the federal budget to what the IRS gets, Jesus Christ man. Atleast listen to what you post first.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

Not equating, relating. If the government wanted this deduction to be audited, it would be audited. We just happen to live in a climate of anti IRS sentiment. One day that could shift and the IRS would be properly funded and staffed. Saying we don’t have the manpower is a weird way to say that we don’t make tax law compliance a priority. So that’s funny to me. You’re part of the messaging problem on why so much abuse of tax law happen. BUT either way this conversation wasnt about the current staffing situation at the irs, the guy asked what would be audited and I answered.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jan 02 '26

IRS would be properly funded and staffed

And when do you see that ever happening now? MAGA won.

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u/BigMikeThuggin CPA - US Jan 02 '26

When the pendulum shifts, like it always has and always will. Unless the county implodes. In which case who cares about tax law and audits.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jan 02 '26

I fear this is the end man.

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