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Until they are paid.

There isn't really much reason to keep them, unless there are some items that can be deducted from your income taxes. For example, a couple of years ago, the IRS finally gave up a long series of court battles and allowed citizens to deduct an illegal telephone excise tax. The catch was, you had to have copies of your phone bills to calculate the refund. If you had the old bills (for three years back) you could take the deduction.

So in SOME RARE cases, it MAY be USEFUL to keep three years of old utility bills. But there is no requirement to do so.

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