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IRS audit by mail

If there are few tax documents needed, the tax payer can ask the IRS to handle the IRS audit by mail. This effectively turns the IRS office audit into a correspondence audit. If the IRS agrees, no actual IRS audit meeting between the tax payer and the IRS official will take place. Generally it is a benefit for the tax payer not to have a meeting with the IRS and avoiding such as meeting should be the tax payer' s initial goal if the tax payer faces an IRS office audit.

If the tax payer cannot escape an audit meeting during the IRS office audit, the tax payer' s primary goal, other than paying no additional tax, is to complete the IRS audit in one meeting with the IRS. This should be easy to accomplish, provided that the tax payer brings to the appointment all tax documents that the IRS tax auditor requested. As in all other tax audits, the tax payer does not have to agree with the IRS findings and can exercise all tax appeal rights to challenge any proposed changes to the tax payer' s tax return.