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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 400252" data-attributes="member: 27">Most people who get audited are flagged in the system because the numbers don&#039;t add up, or maybe they&#039;ve taken way too many liberties in declaring dependents, donations to charity, or their income.&nbsp; They may still pick a few at random for audit, but typically they only take the time to do this if they have good evidence of fraud and want the person to &quot;show their receipts&quot; (hence the modern term).&nbsp; This has become a stock sitcom plot (to have a main character get audited) because of the &quot;guilty until proven innocent&quot; attitude of IRS agents and the myriad of jokes a writer can come up with concerning how poorly someone can fill out their tax returns.And this is all done over our Income taxes, not sales tax (which, as you reference, is taken automatically).&nbsp; The US existed longer without Income Tax than it has with it, but unfortunately the government is so addicted to spending money that the Income Taxes are likely here to stay just like Sales Taxes (and any other ones the government can invent).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 400252, member: 27"] Most people who get audited are flagged in the system because the numbers don't add up, or maybe they've taken way too many liberties in declaring dependents, donations to charity, or their income. They may still pick a few at random for audit, but typically they only take the time to do this if they have good evidence of fraud and want the person to "show their receipts" (hence the modern term). This has become a stock sitcom plot (to have a main character get audited) because of the "guilty until proven innocent" attitude of IRS agents and the myriad of jokes a writer can come up with concerning how poorly someone can fill out their tax returns. And this is all done over our Income taxes, not sales tax (which, as you reference, is taken automatically). The US existed longer without Income Tax than it has with it, but unfortunately the government is so addicted to spending money that the Income Taxes are likely here to stay just like Sales Taxes (and any other ones the government can invent). [/QUOTE]

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