Statistics from the Internal Revenue Service indicate that taxpayers with income under $200,000 have less chance of being audited than those in higher income ranges.
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However, there are far more taxpayers who are making under $200,000. The coverage rate for them, though, is 0.96 percent, meaning less than 1 percent of them are being audited.
In contrast, those with incomes of $200,000 and higher are subject to a coverage rate of 2.89 percent, while those with incomes of $1 million or higher are audited at a rate of 6.42 percent. There were 28,349 audits of those making over $1 million.
Audits jumped 11 percent from 2008 and 2009 for those making $200,000 or more, and 30 percent for those who earned $1 million or more, the
That could provide some small solace to the many who saw their salaries decline significantly in the past year.