What Readers Can Do To Avoid a IRS Tax Audit

How can you avoid a tax audit by the IRS? After all, a tax audit can be costly, time consuming and stressful. The good news is that IRS audits of returns by individual taxpayers are down slightly in the two most recent years. The bad news? The IRS is levying hefty additional tax bills on returns that it does audit — and some of those follow-up bills have risen in size.