Internal Revenue Service: Regional Variation in IRS Tax Collection Programs
IRS audits individual tax returns to determine if taxpayers properly report their true tax liability. The odds of being audited, however, vary widely by district. Taxpayers in Nevada, perhaps because of its major industry, were nearly twic
e as likely to be audited than the taxpayers in the country as a whole. It is not clear, however, why the audit rate of Wyoming was three times the rate in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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