{"id":32,"date":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/2026\/07\/10\/what-to-keep-after-you-file\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","slug":"what-to-keep-after-you-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/what-to-keep-after-you-file\/","title":{"rendered":"What to keep \u2014 and what to shred \u2014 after you file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"anps-lead\">Once your return is filed, the paper doesn\u2019t have to live forever. Here\u2019s a practical retention schedule for small businesses.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"three-years\">Keep for at least three years<\/h2>\n<p>Receipts, invoices and bank statements that support your return. The IRS generally has three years to audit a filed return.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"seven-years\">Keep for seven years<\/h2>\n<p>Records that support bad-debt deductions or losses from worthless securities, and anything tied to a return where income may have been under-reported.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"forever\">Keep indefinitely<\/h2>\n<p>Filed returns themselves, formation documents, and records for property and equipment until you sell them \u2014 you\u2019ll need the cost basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long to keep returns, receipts, payroll records and bank statements, and what you can safely let go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tax-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}