Claiming Home Mortgage Interest You must itemize your deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A to claim mortgage interest. This means foregoing the standard deduction for your filing statusâit's an either/or situation. You can itemize or you can or you can claim the standard deduction but you can't do both.
The IRS has a 10 year period of time in which to collect back taxes. After that ten year period of time, the back taxes drop off the tax data base and the debt is legally forgiven and can never be collected. The federal tax liens are also released by statute.
Generally, the statute of limitations for tax return audits is three years. For example, the IRS would have until April 15, 2016 to assess additional tax on a business that files a 2012 tax return on April 15, 2013. However, the IRS can reach back six years if a business erroneously fails to report more than 25 percent of its gross income. Furthermore, the IRS can audit as far back as necessary to address tax fraud, or when businesses completely fail to file tax returns. References (4) The CPA Journal: Determining the Statute of Limitations in Federal Tax Cases