The truth is that "risk meter" is really just a scare tactic to get you to think you need to buy the audit protection service for an additional fee. No program can truely guage your risk for an audit since the IRS does some randomly which cannot be factored into any tool. The IRS doesn't broadcast what they are looking for to be audited from year to year so how can a "tool" possibly know this information in any way. And of course the program cannot know if the user entered things correctly or followed all the screen instructions properly which can also lead to a possible audit or more likely a review as formal audits are becoming more rare due to staffing shortages.
