Yeah. I won't say my nicely-paid tax preparer checks every minor charitable deduction but he certainly wants documentation for everything material.

Imagine cheating someone out of supposedly $8,000 and instead putting them into the hole $2,000. Someone who is living paycheck to paycheck.

Yeah I'm the sleaze...

"Sorry, you could've had a large windfall and finally fixed that AC system -- but in my personal opinion, as a tax preparer with over 2 hours of online training -- you didn't keep proper documentation, sorry!