>highly automated processes to send letters through the mail (a “correspondence audit”) These are not correspondence audits. Those involve a Revenue Agent on

>highly automated processes to send letters through the mail (a “correspondence audit”) These are not correspondence audits. Those involve a Revenue Agent on the other end, not a computer-generated letter. The article completely misses the point that auditing a wealthy person for tax evasion (not paying all tax on their income) is very different from auditing Earned Income Credit recipients. In the latter case, they are not looking for mis-reported income, they are trying to prevent fraud in a welfare program mandated by Congress for the IRS to carry out via the tax system. It actually has little to do with taxes in most cases.