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High income alone is far from the only factor triggering an audit: Last year only 6.4% of the nation's 440,000 highest-income filers were audited.
One CPA, for example, bragged that he specialized in creating "plain vanilla" returns that would allow the agent to cheat without triggering an audit.
As for my chances of actually triggering an audit, they're reasonably low.
Tax laws are multilayered, complex, confusing beasts filled with loopholes and special circumstances that could end up costing you thousands of dollars or triggering an audit.
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European Union election observers have suggested checks on all voting stations with 595 of 600 possible votes cast – at present only 599 out of the 600 votes issued to each station triggers an audit – and areas with unusual ratios of male and female voters.
Some transactions among the offshore trusts may or may not have triggered an audit.
If the IRS is not more apt to audit based on income levels alone, what, then, triggers an audit?
Other possible red flags that could trigger an audit include deductions for either a home office or maintenance of a rental property.
There are many old wives tales saying that certain items trigger an audit: home office deductions, passive losses, schedule C (sole proprietorship) activities, etc.
It triggered an audit which required Facebook to disclose more user data and, importantly, to turn off its facial recognition feature in Europe.
One big irony here, Cooperman agreed, is that if he hadn't filed the amended return, which triggered an audit, and thereafter inquired about the status of a refund he thought he had coming, the three-year statute of limitations would have barred the IRS from challenging all of the original $43 million in deductions.
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