In 2011 the IRS will mail 10 million taxpayers notices informing them of an audit by the service. The most current figures available from the federal government reveal 142 million returns were filed by individuals in 2008. Almost 52 million, or 36%, of filings were required to pay no tax or receive money in excess of what they had paid.
One word never used to describe the Internal Revenue Service is stupid. They will not forward audit notices to taxpayers without tax obligation.
Employing simple math we can deduce that one in nine tax-paying American families will receive the audit letter.
From the pool of 10 million an extra special group of families, 400,000 or 4% will be subject to what the service calls a hard audit. Any American taxpayer who has lived through the hard audit experience without equivocation labels it as the audit from hell!
Are you one of the 90 million taxpayers that paid taxes? We offer a simple self-evaluation process to calculate your family’s odds of visiting IRS Hell in 2011.
We will e-mail you this form. Following the simple instructions, you and your family will be able to estimate your chance of traveling to Audit Hell. The time required to complete the evaluation is less than 5 minutes.
Enter your name and e-mail address in the form on the right, confirm your request, and the exam form is on its way to you!
