<<You usually have to put a "date won" next to the casino entries. As a non-pro, for example, I'd be nervous listing one $100,000 win dated December
31 ( assuming your last jackpot was then ) , versus 20 $5000 hits scattered about during the year. The logic being, for audit profiling , maybe he's a person that hit a big jackpot in late December , got lucky, and is likely a winner for the year. Are you saying it dont matter, they pull up their records , see that its really 20 hits not one ?
best...Tom>>
1) They have copies of all your W-2Gs already.
2) Although tax software asks you to fill in a bunch of information about each W-2G, when I checked the actual data being transmitted via the e-file a few years ago I didn't see any of the individual W-2G data, just the total amount won.
3) If you file a paper return there is no place to list individual W-2Gs, nor are you supposed to return them unless there is tax withheld
So my conclusion is that tax software unnecessarily asks you to do a lot of typing.
Cogno
