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You've kept your business receipts religiously. The dozen file folders you just pulled out, one for each month, that are brimming with restaurant receipts, office supplies receipts, gas receipts and mileage and maintenance receipts give testimony of your most excellent efforts. As you begin sorting them, you start feeling queasy, and a light sheen of perspiration breaks out across your forehead: Older receipts have faded, and now you can't read them! How are you going to justify the legitimate business expenses on your taxes? Don't automatically throw them away: You might be able to salvage their usefulness anyway.