HIT LIST OF THE IRS

Other Target Occupations that the IRS will most likely audit is:

Salespeople: Outside and auto-sales people are particular favorites. Agents look for, and often find, poorl documented travel expenses and padded promotional figures.

Airline Pilots: High incomes, a propensity to invest in questionable tax shelters, and commuting expenses claimed as business travel makes them an inviting prospects.

Flight Attendants: Travel expenses are usually a high percentage of their total income and often are not well documented. Some persist in trying to deduct pantyhose, permanents, cosmetics, and similar items that the cours have repeatedly rulded out as personal other then business expenses.

Executives: As a group they are not usually singled out. But if the retun includes a form 2106, showing a sizable sum for unreimbursed employee expenses, an audit is more likely. Anyone whose income is over $50,000 a year is usually under their microscope.

Teachers and College Professors: Agents pounce on returns claiming office at home deductions. they are also wary of educational expense deductions because they may turn out to be vacations in disquise.

Clergymen: Bona fide priests, ministers, and rabbis arent considered a problem group. Buf if w-2s show income from a nonchurch employers the irs will be on alert for mail order ministry scams.

Waitress and Cabdrivers: Anyone in an occupatin where you can earn tips are a significant factor is likely to get a closer look from the irs nowadays. Also, truly deceptive descriptions under their occupation can trigger penalties.