Tax Help For Homeowners with Unfiled Tax Returns: How Paying Your Mortgage is Tipping off the IRS
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Recently, the IRS decided to expand on an existing program of mining mortgage payment data to catch tax cheats—anyone who reported less income than they paid in mortgage interest run the risk of getting an IRS audit.
Each year, the home lender sends the home owner a 1098 form, also known as the mortgage-interest statement. The IRS also receives a copy of this form and will cross-check the numbers on this
