<prompt> Human: Kind of a funny question here, and this is NOT intended to try and find a tax loophole!But Im wondering whats to stop people from writing off business property laptops, copy machines, whatever that they then return to the store? Besides it being almost certainly illegal.If someone gets audited, I imagine they will need to show receipts for the purchase. But would they ever need to produce receipts for the entire rest of the year, wherein those same items would show up as having been returned? I guess the real question is what sorts of documentation gets asked for at an audit? Would a person ever have to show their entire credit card history for the year, for example?Honest curiosity here, and not any attempt to be shady. I totally get that it would be a terrible idea regardless.  <response>: Yes, if you get audited and they look at receipts for thousands of dollars of business property, they will want to see that business property, and how will you explain its absence? If you say it was stolen, you have to have a police report. If you say you sold it or even donated it, you have to have a receipt of saletransferdonation. Even if you say you just lost it, you have to document the loss of asset for business depreciation. And if this happens for item after item during your audit, it wont take long before youre charged with falsifying tax write-offs, and then youre in trouble. 