It turns out that if you filed for the Adoption Tax Credit for 2010, you were audited. Period. End of story. And you probably still don’t have your full refund from Uncle Sam.
I can’t help but think that this will be a continuing trend in future years now that the credit is so high (over $13,000) and fully refundable no matter how much you owe.
Lesson learned? Save those receipts, invoices, and cancelled checks (this is the part I was bad at since they don’t physically mail them to you anymore).
Oh oh! Good luck!