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Depending on your type of business, you may need to remove items from your inventory due to loss of some kind.
Regardless of the reason, the IRS is extremely sensitive to unjustified inventory variations in an administrative system.
Often purchases are recorded and sales are recorded, so the IRS calculates purchases minus sales (that's all they look at) and if the difference is significant, it will be assumed that you are selling inventory without recording it as sales and an audit investigation will be triggered.
The IRS inspectors most of the time do not want explanations from you and will do the calculation without your explanations and details on the discrepancies. With the revision of the 2005 income tax law in Quebec, you are presumed guilty and it is up to you to demonstrate the absence of fraud.
It is so easy to counter this possibility while benefiting from advantages and statistics in the software.
The simplest, fastest and most accepted method is to make a sales invoice without a price or at 0.00.
Create a LOSSES client and keep a small list of your losses. Periodically create a sales invoice to the LOSSES client with the items on your list.
It is quick and simple, and the inventory extraction is found in your sales register and the tax authorities will not see any discrepancy.
In addition, you will have periodic statistics on losses. You will be able to examine the LOSSES client to view them. If you ever get asked for them, it will be easy to extract the report for that client.
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