March 28, 2006

Lifestyles: Only 30 out of more than 180,000 Millionaires Faced Traditional IRS Audits Last Year

March 28: Analysis of IRS data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) further indicates that the audit rate for America's wealthiest taxpayers is substantially lower than for the poorest.

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It is not known whether the very low rate of face-to-face audits for millionaires reported in FY 2005 -- less than 2 out of 10,000 -- is new or whether the policy has been followed in previous years.

http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/current/

Posted by Stubbornson at March 28, 2006 08:04 AM