IRS Audits of Federal Income Tax Returns Filed by Individuals

Ranking IRS Districts: Overall

IRS District	Percent of Returns Audited
	Fiscal Year
	96	95	94	93	92
U.S.	0.66	0.70	0.72	0.66	0.66
Southern California	1.62	1.57	1.15	1.28	1.10
Los Angeles	1.59	1.34	1.32	1.39	1.37
Northern California	1.24	1.17	1.15	1.16	1.04
Central California	1.17	0.92	0.74	0.86	0.93
North Texas	0.95	1.03	0.90	0.82	0.80
Gulf Coast	0.83	0.89	0.90	0.80	0.88
Southwest	0.80	0.98	1.23	1.01	1.00
Georgia	0.78	1.13	1.11	1.07	0.92
Houston	0.76	0.79	0.86	0.81	0.75
Manhattan	0.75	1.07	0.77	0.62	0.78
Rocky Mountain	0.73	0.86	0.87	0.80	0.79
Arkansas-Oklahoma	0.72	0.85	1.01	0.96	0.95
South Florida	0.71	0.68	0.87	0.83	0.84
North Central	0.68	0.61	0.83	0.58	0.58
Pacific-Northwest	0.63	0.68	0.73	0.69	0.71
Connecticut-Rhode Island	0.60	0.83	0.82	0.69	0.69
Brooklyn	0.58	0.59	0.47	0.42	0.48
South Texas	0.55	0.73	0.72	0.71	0.67
Delaware-Maryland	0.53	0.47	0.50	0.42	0.47
Midwest	0.53	0.49	0.48	0.35	0.34
North Florida	0.52	0.57	0.70	0.67	0.69
Kansas-Missouri	0.51	0.55	0.77	0.70	0.46
Indiana	0.51	0.60	0.63	0.51	0.53
North-South Carolina	0.48	0.56	0.55	0.53	0.50
Illinois	0.47	0.51	0.69	0.39	0.39
New England	0.46	0.53	0.57	0.46	0.48
Michigan	0.44	0.47	0.54	0.40	0.45
Virginia-West Virginia	0.42	0.46	0.60	0.47	0.49
New Jersey	0.42	0.39	0.39	0.42	0.39
Kentucky-Tennessee	0.40	0.45	0.54	0.58	0.67
Pennsylvania	0.36	0.40	0.44	0.37	0.36
Upstate New York	0.36	0.43	0.48	0.46	0.44
Ohio	0.34	0.33	0.34	0.38	0.49

Copyright 1998, TRAC Reports, Inc.