These are not audit audits - they are requests for written verification on certain claimed exemptions.
It is actually against IRS policy for agents to conduct audits on individuals who are not likely to yield financial results - it's a waste of manpower. They have a recovery cut off line - X amount of $ recoverable per hour of audit time. If they can't see that then the audit is not supposed to proceed.
One of the things they look for are signs of wealth - signs that you are spending money on yourself, and maybe are failing to account for that. If all they see is poverty, they usually go away.
If you want to pay high rent in classy locations, and drive a Mercedes to the office, then your paperwork better be tight.
If you work at the junk yard and drive a beater, with the yard dogs chained to the office door, which is in a dirty mobile trailer, and a pot of coffee in a dirty coffee pot, the audit to be conducted on an old card table with an uncomfortable wooden chair with uneven legs - well... that audit just isn't going to last very long.
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