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IRS has new favorite people to audit

If youre scared of an audit by the IRS, theres less to fear these days. New data show that budget cuts at the IRS mean the agency is investigating fewer wealthy taxpayers.

By Ben Steverman | Updated on April 09, 2015

(Bloomberg Business) — If you’re scared of an audit by the IRS, there’s less to fear these days. New data show that budget cuts at the IRS mean the agency is investigating fewer wealthy taxpayers. 

An average taxpayer’s chance of being audited has tumbled 23 percent in three years, in line with an IRS budget that’s dropped an inflation-adjusted 17 percent since 2010. Only 0.9 percent of individual taxpayers were audited last year, the lowest proportion in seven years. 

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