One nastiness you may someday have to face in life is when a man with a battered briefcase and a shapeless raincoat arrives at your door demanding to share your financial records with him. The first thing to do is ask for his card. If he is an auditor he will probably want to dispute all or one of your past 4 filings. He will need to find a "bone" to go home with so try to keep it brief and send him on his way.

If his card shows that he is an investigator then he is there to put you in jail. Interestingly if he arrived after you were audited he is already on thin ice as the information obtained from an audit cannot be used in an investigation although most investigations start with information illegally supplied by an auditor. If you can prove that the investigation was sparked by an audit odds are it will be thrown out of court and you might even as Mr. Saplys did, get a $250,000 settlement.