I received an alert from my friends at KraftCPAs yesterday with the following subject line: "How long should your keep you tax records?"

The post by Morganne Keel contains some very basic, succinct and easy-to-implement ideas for document retention of tax records, including the following:

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Individual taxpayers

Keep at least three years, but

A few months ago, I did a webinar on project documentation.  At the end of the webinar, one of the participants asked, Are digital signatures as good as hard copy signatures?

I addressed this exact question in a feature article that I wrote for ABC’s Construction Executive magazine on the paperless construction project