Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the IRS explanation pretty much defies belief. What they are saying is that they only save emails for 6 months, then they are irretrievably lost, UNLESS, you store the emails on your computer.
The IRS can go back YEARS and ruin your life if you can’t produce the proper paperwork. But, you try to find their record of communications, it all stops at 6 months.
If this is true, which I doubt, people should go to jail over this.
You’re totally correct. But they don’t care whether anyone believes them or not. They will just say “We told you, the emails are gone, now shut up about it”.
In other words, “Move on!”
Rules are different for “us” than for “them”. Try using “My records were lost when my hard disk crashed” excuse to the IRS and they will say “F### you, you must pay the penalty PLUS interest anyway”.
You’re not wrong at all. They’re just lying their butts off.