Originally Posted by
jungle
The fact is most of us are low hanging fruit and constitute the upper ten percent or much better for their 70% of revenue collection. What better place to fish? They aren't going to spend much time on the bottom 50% where they extract about 3% of revenue.
Oddly it does not work out that way. It appears that the audit rates are:
0.81% for income < 25k
0.58% 25k to 50k
0.62% 50k to 100k
1.66% over 100k
It seems a little strange to me, but what do I know.
In our case the per diem deduction may raise a flag.