Chances for Being Audited

During Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, the IRS processed 230 million Federal tax returns and supplemental documents and collected $2.3 trillion in gross taxes. After accounting for 122.2 million refunds, totaling $467.3 billion, collections (net of refunds) totaled $1.8 trillion.

During FY 2010, there were more than 141.1 million individual income tax returns filed, accounting for 61.3 percent of all returns filed. Individual income tax withheld and tax payments, combined, totaled almost $1.2 trillion before refunds. Individual taxpayers received $358 billion in refunds.

The IRS also processed almost 2.4 million returns and collected almost $278 billion in taxes, before refunds, from corporations in FY 2010. Partnerships and S-Corporations filed an additional 8 million returns.

More than 116 million returns, including almost 70 percent of individual income tax returns, were filed electronically in FY 2010. More than 64 million returns were submitted to the IRS through paid preparers, while 2.9 million taxpayers whose adjusted gross income was $58,000 or less filed using the IRS Free File program. The following table shows the percentage of returns By AGI and the audit percentage for that income category. Certain income levels are audited more frequently than others.

AGI	% Of all returns filed	% Audited
All Returns	100.00	1.11
No adjusted gross income	2.11	3.19
$1 under $25,000	39.62	1.18
$25,000 under $50,000	23.96	0.73
$50,000 under $75,000	13.41	0.78
$75,000 under $100,000	8.21	0.64
$100,000 under $200,000	9.64	0.71
$200,000 under $500,000	2.41	1.92
$500,000 under $1,000,000	0.41	3.37
$1,000,000 under $5,000,000	0.20	6.67
$5,000,000 under $10,000,000	0.01	11.56
$10,000,000 or more	0.01	18.38

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