IRS' Audits of Individual Taxpayers and Its Audit Quality Control System Need To Be Better
GGD-79-59
Published: Aug 15, 1979. Publicly Released: Sep 14, 1979.
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The quality of the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) audits of taxpayers' individual income tax returns needs to be improved. When IRS does less than quality audits some taxpayers may pay more than they owe, tax revenues may be lost, and voluntary compliance may suffer.
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Auditing proceduresQuality controlTax nonpaymentTax return auditsAudit qualityData errorsTaxpayersStatistical dataAuditsTax returns