MinhT1
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The audit risk analysis is not an absolute or exact meter.

 

What your experiment found only means that reporting a loss carries a higher probability of audit than reporting a profit, everything else being identical. 

 

Of course, reporting a loss or a profit is not the only criterion the IRS uses to select audit targets.

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