You can see the pattern here - it's not malicious (though it may be a systemic injustice), it's an outcome of statistics playing out in unintended ways. Probab

You can see the pattern here - it's not malicious (though it may be a systemic injustice), it's an outcome of statistics playing out in unintended ways. Probably true. But purely from a revenue perspective, I wonder if larger emphasis on the rich would pay better dividends? Over half the audits are for returns with incomes less than $25,000. Even if there's a problem, the amount of recoverable money is really low. Even though most of those are "correspondence audits" (done via letter instead of face-to-face) somebody still hast to review any new documentation.