All businesses, whether large or small, produce an array of records. Maintaining and retaining these records is more than a matter of filing away a few important documents in case they are needed in ...

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 ...

Paper, paper and still more paper! When can these documents be destroyed? We get questions about tax backup documentation from clients often. To assist you, we provide some ideas to carefully consider ...

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 ...

U.S. laws require companies to retain records for years, and sometimes forever, and violating U.S. records retention laws can result in domestic fines and penalties. How can U.S. companies comply with ...

There is no question that construction is a uniquely document-intensive industry. On every project, countless, lengthy, records are generated: contracts, specifications, daily reports, meeting minutes ...

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 ...