Every company should have a well-designed document retention policy in place for various business and legal reasons. Perhaps the most important reason is to ensure compliance with the multitude of ...

An employee submits a W-4 to an employer to set income tax withholding from earnings. The employer then keeps this form in the employee's personnel file. The Internal Revenue Service advises employees ...

Question: We are in the process of preparing to sell our home and want to trash as much of our old paperwork as possible. We have house bills, personal tax returns, and records from an old business ...

You've probably heard that you should hang onto your tax returns for three years. The truth is that tax record retention periods vary from three years to indefinitely depending on the types of ...

Retention of sponsored project expense documentation is important, especially in the event of an audit. If a sponsored project is audited and supporting expense documentation cannot be provided to the ...

Question: I am a very recent widower and will soon be moving into an assisted living facility. I am trying to dispose of our old paperwork. Most of the paperwork consists of house bills, personal tax ...