Fortunately most of my 1099 work was for the state so my paperwork was more than enough to keep the IRS happy.
I could be generating up to 14 pages for every inspection I did if you included the copies (4 documents in triplicate and 2 more singles). I wrote a computer program to do it so it wasn't that horrible.
I was pretty used to good record keeping anyway with IBM. We documented our day in 6 minute increments and you had to account for all of it. You also tracked every mile you drove and every dime you spent, if you wanted to be reimbursed.
It turns out that is exactly what the IRS expects to see if you file a schedule C and they call you on it.
I was actually a little disappointed when I was audited because they never questioned any of it tho. It was really pretty underwhelming.
