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They are not audits. They are automated notices to idiots trying to claim the same child tax credit in multiple returns or hiding income(not reporting their w2 lol) to claim the EITC
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In other words, understaffed agency goes for the low hanging fruit
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Weird way to frame it. The computer does it automatically. They would do it whether they were well staffed or not.
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The computer does not do all the loopholes and tax codes automatically. If it did that would solve a lot of these problems. But we need audits in the cases companies or people lie/exaggerate/forget/etc.
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