Specific Factors That Are Used in Selecting Tax Returns for Audit

question 17

Essay

Specific factors that are used in selecting tax returns for audit and the weights for such factors are not released to the public. Summarize the public information about tax audit selection; how might a tax return's chances of audit increase above national norms?

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Definitions:

Shoshone Indian

A member of a Native American people originally from the western United States, including parts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho.

Pacific Ocean

The largest and deepest of the Earth's oceanic divisions, extending from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south.

Sacajawea

A Lemhi Shoshone woman who is best known for her role as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition in the early 1800s.

Lewis and Clark

refers to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the early 19th-century expedition across the western United States, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson.