jehanne1431
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Because just like in business where audits are mandatory for large companies, random audits prevents a lot of wide spread cheating. IRS random audits puts everyone on notice that if they cheat and are found out the penalties can be severe. So it prevents a ton of smaller tax payers from widespread cheating in my estimation. There will still be some who take the chance and cheat anyway of course.It is. So, why would you be ok with the IRS forcing tax payers to do a random audit that is only designed to give the IRS internal data to use? Is it fair that they force people to pay for a tax lawyer due to these random audits?
Your second question has some merit, imo. Maybe if the audit findings were so minimal the govt. would cover legal costs. That would be fair, but I doubt that will ever happen. Given that, I still prefer they are conducted to prevent a far greater financial loss to the U.S. tax payers if smaller tax payers had no fear of ever being audited.