The IRS leaves no stone unturned in its mission to determine the accuracy of your tax return. If you don't comply with the Auditors' wishes, the IRS will recalculate your tax and send you home with a hefty tax bill as your parting gift.
Many taxpayers decide to handle a tax audit themselves, and discover they may have been "penny wise," avoiding a representative's fee, but "pound foolish," because they received a substantial bill for a significant tax deficiency.
You see, IRS Auditors are trained to extract more information from you than you have a legal obligation to provide. IRS Auditors know that most people fear them and are ignorant of their rights. As a result, they know they can use that fear and ignorance to their advantage.
Rarely do our clients even have to talk with the IRS. We handle it all for you so that you need not take time off of your business or job to handle the bureaucracy and paperwork of the IRS. No lost wages or business. You simply forward notification of an audit to us and we handle it from A to Z.
Get Help with Your IRS Audit, Don't take on the IRS alone!
An IRS audit can be a very frightening and stressful situation. Knowing the IRS wants to take a second, closer look at your tax return, whether it is the entire return or just a portion of it, such as expenses claimed for meals, entertainment or travel, can be a very nerve-racking experience.
At One Plus Tax, we never advise any taxpayer to represent themselves in an IRS audit, no matter how simple it may seem. Even if you honestly believe you filled your entire tax return out correctly, meeting with the IRS can be a very intimidating experience.
This is especially true if you have to experience a face-to-face audit. Traditionally, however, the majority of IRS audits are done via correspondence. In other words, most IRS audits are in the form of letters asking for explanations of various tax items on a tax return or requesting supporting documentation.
The fact of the matter is that on average only about one-third of all IRS audits are done on a face-to-face basis with a revenue agent, tax compliance officer, or tax examiner. In fact, according to the IRS’ 2007 Data Book, during fiscal year 2007 (Oct. 1, 2006 through Sept. 30, 2007), only 22.49 percent of all tax return audits were conducted in person, while 77.51 percent were what are called correspondence audits.
More often than not, an IRS audit of a tax return will result in changes to the return. Whether these changes are good or bad for the taxpayer depends on the situation. The no-change rate, or the number of returns accepted as filed after examination for fiscal year 2007 was 16 percent for correspondence audits and 12 percent for those returns audited by revenue agents, tax compliance officers or tax examiners.
As for the likelihood of your tax return being audited, just keep this in mind. There were 1,384,563 individual tax returns that were audited during fiscal year 2007, out of a total of 134.5 million returns filed in the previous year. That means that only one percent of all individual returns filed actually received an IRS audit.
But what if you happen to be in that unlucky one percent? We advise that you hire a professional to represent you. When you hire One Plus Tax, you can be comforted by knowing that our Tax Team has years of experience dealing with the IRS audits. You can face an audit with confidence when you know you have our Tax Team on your side.
