There are many events that encourage the IRS to act and chief among them is people taking advantage of charity deductions. In the case of durable goods or non-cash donations to charity, reports issued in late 2003 found that over half a billion dollars was slipping through the IRS’s proverbial fingertips. In an effort to stem this revenue hemorrhaging, new rules took effect in 2005, largely due to just a single scathing report from the US General Accounting Office (GAO) in late 2003.