I have seen more and more clients get audited int he last 18 months for 1099R distribution reporting.

I suspect that you would have a tough time defending it in an audit or other civil/criminal proceeding. 

As long as you have records for an audit that do not appear like you created them at the time of audit, you should be ok, whatever method you choose.  

Audit every cash register every day if not every shift.If the numbers aren't adding up, don't trust your heart and chalk it up to cash register user errors like I did. 

I have a Legal Shield membership and I purchase audit protection for my tax returns.It would be very uncharacteristic of me and irresponsible to not also protect my family, my person and my civil rights by being a responsibly armed Citizen.

It can be very aggressive as long as you understand / balance the risk of audit and tax penalty if you lose the audit.

However, yearly reconciliation is still required with actual receipts as back up if audited by the stakeholders.  

You would need to do an energy audit and the auditor will give you recommendations (cost breakdown) on improving the energy efficiency of the home.

Gas is not run to the building, so converting would be cost prohibitive.I would plan on ordering an energy audit and insulating any problem areas to help control costs, but not sure how much this would really help.

If you get tax audited years from now the 1031 wouldn't stand if you did not complete it correctly or it wasn't eligible to begin with.No legal advice given.