Six tips for going paperless

[beef_cake]

Just wanted to share these thoughts from Productivity501.com.

I have been moving toward a paperless office for two reasons. First the amount of paper in my life continues to grow each year and I’ve grown tired of spending so much effort just wrangling physical paper. Second I spend a lot of time on the road. It is nice to have access to all my

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[bagoffarts]

Haven't looked into it, but does the IRS accept scans for receipts?

[beef_cake]

Internet consensus seems to indicate that scanned receipts are perfectly acceptable. You just have to make sure that all the relevant information is present and be able to reproduce the print document on request.

The simplest example of electronic receipts being OK is that of ticketless air travel, where the receipts are in the form of an email.

Here are the references I found.
http://www.taxgirl.com/ask-the-taxgirl-scanned-receipts/
http://notes.kateva.org/2006/02/discarding-receipts-irs-accepts.html
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/758254.html