{"id":18690,"date":"2015-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/lower-chances-audit-now\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:54:12","slug":"lower-chances-audit-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/lower-chances-audit-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Chances of an Audit Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here&#039;s what I want you to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something that may cheer you up \u2013 the IRS reports a significant decline in the rate of audits done. <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tag\/irs-audit\/\">\u00a0Last\u00a0year, the rate of audits (the percentage of individual tax returns flagged for examination by the IRS) fell to a measly 0.86%. <\/a>\u00a0That is the lowest it has been since fiscal year 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, only 1.2 million tax returns were audited which was less than in 2013 by about 162,000 cases and lower by almost 339,000 compared to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this interesting development here:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external external_icon\" title=\"IRS audit rate for individuals drops\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150316070527\/http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2015\/02\/24\/irs-audit-rate-drops\/23876109\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRS Audit Rate for Individuals Drops.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here&#039;s what I want you to understand. Here&#8217;s something that may cheer you up \u2013 the IRS reports a significant decline in the rate of audits done. \u00a0Last\u00a0year, the rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-18690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-irs-audit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22398,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690\/revisions\/22398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}