House concerts are becoming increasingly more popular every day. If you go to a performer's website you will see at least 3 or 4 house concerts listed on their calendar. The IRS is aware of this as well.
Last week I had a folksinger from Canada visit me. She told me that when she crossed the border the (Homeland Security) inspector went to a computer and Googled her name. He immediately went to her website calendar and asked to see the contracts for each gig that she had listed. He then proceeded to photocopy each contract and informed her that Homeland Security does share this information with other government agencies. Although he did not specify IRS she did have her suspicions.

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