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Watch Out for Tax Audit Red Flags

Now that you've completed your tax return, you may be wondering about your . Most people can breathe easy. The vast majority of individual returns escape the IRS audit machine. In 2017, the individual audit rate was 0.6%. That's one out of every 167 returns filed. More than 77% of these audits were handled solely by mail, meaning taxpayers never met with an IRS agent in person. But there are red flags that the IRS consistently

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