Consider Sarah Lesher, who had had a couple of appalling encounters with the IRS, partly because she didn't adequately prepare.


From 1976 to 1980, Sarah worked for Yale as a research associate and computer programmer. When she learned of a publisher of travel guides in need of information for a revised edition of an African travel guide, she contacted the publisher and received information regarding the submission of articles.

Sarah traveled to Africa in October 1980 and then to Israel in Janu...