That is the sum a duty court as of late chosen that Menard Inc. had inappropriately deducted from its corporate expense form in 1998, the year it was evaluated by the IRS. From the's perspective, the home improvement chain, situated in Eau Claire, Wis., had horribly overpaid its originator and CEO, John Menard, and afterward taken awfully enormous a reasoning for his pay. The court likewise slapped the secretly tm.menard-inc.com held organization for the manner in which it misused certain operational expense.

Here's another number to consider: $443 million. That is how much the IRS spending plan should increment in financial 2006 if President Bush has his direction. It's a general spending increase in 4.3%, however requirement exercises - reviews, examinations, and so forth - are slated for an expansion of 7.8%. The IRS additionally as of late declared designs to turn around its yearslong decrease in independent company reviews and implementations, says IRS official Mark Everson.

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Could this imply you're in for a review - and maybe a multimillion-dollar fine too? It'll be far more uncertain on the off chance that you gain from John Menard, whose case gives a typical case of what not to do when documenting corporate expenses. Certainly, Menard is no common business visionary. With around 200 stores extending over the Midwest, he is one of the most extravagant men in Wisconsin. Nor is this his first brush with the experts (See "Deals Are Up. So Are Lawsuits," page 20). In any case, the issues that rose up out of his review are quite normal, says Emily Parker, previous vice president counsel at the IRS and now a band together with Thompson and Knight LLP in Dallas.

The Feds have dependably been amazingly intrigued by how administrators are redressed. That is on the grounds that while enterprises must cover government obligations on profits, they can deduct compensations (counting rewards) as costs. Thus, the IRS throws a vigilant eye at entrepreneurs who pay themselves, or their top executives, outsize pay rates or rewards however pay no profits - particularly when the organization is productive. In reality, specialists are slanted to see huge compensations as "masked profits," says G. Michelle Ferreira, charge lawyer at Greenberg Traurig in Silicon Valley.