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Repetitive IRS Audits of Taxpayers Are Justified

GGD-77-74 Published: Nov 18, 1977. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 1977.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits a relatively small number of individual taxpayers each year. Overall, taxpayers who have been audited repetitively by the IRS were audited because their returns fit the usual selection criteria. However, IRS should reduce the number of repetitively audited taxpayers.

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