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originally posted by: whyamIhere
I was audited...I had to produce documents from 10 years back.
The IRS auditor told me 7 years was an Urban Legend.
Love or hate Paul Ryan you have to give him credit for this.
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: kruphix
Wait...do you actually BELIEVE the emails were accidently lost? If anything them losing the emails proves to a rational person that they do have something to hide. Therefore, it is NOT a witch hunt unless you are one of those naive people that thinks that Government can be trusted. If so, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
originally posted by: neo96
"You expect American taxpayers to keep 7 years of records, but you can't hold on to your emails for 6 months?"
originally posted by: saneboy
originally posted by: neo96
"You expect American taxpayers to keep 7 years of records, but you can't hold on to your emails for 6 months?"
Anyone who's every worked as a Systems Admin or a Mail admin knows that a crash of the user's hard drive would have about zero impact in being able to recover the email in question. On the back end, there are always servers, backups and a mandated period for retention of those backups for compliance reasons (like the current situation). Even deleting the users items or whole mailbox doesn't make this unrecoverable.
I call BS on this whole thing.
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