This posting by Michael Cohn in AccountingToday talks about another problem in the IRS world – compliance testing on deductions for alimony (spousal support) vs. the corresponding income claimed on other tax returns:

http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs_watch/discrepancy-seen-in-nearly-half-of-alimony-deductions-reported-to-irs-70660-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-may%2016%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&ET=webcpa%3Ae2659209%3A2498807a%3A&st=email

First of all, is this problem in the deductions taken or the income reported? (I have no data, but I would guesss that later more than the former.) Why hasn’t the IRS put safeguards in place to match up items quickly as soon as both returns are filed? This is another problem that the IRS really needs to address.

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