[justlurking]

It is possible to be selected for a routine audit (not the line-by-line one) based simply on random chance. Every taxpayer has the opportunity to be selected for this but the odds are quite small. Nothing on your return triggered the audit, you were just the winner of this unfortunate lottery.

Thanks for the amplification. Not many people know about this type of audit, and presume that an audit means something was "wrong".

To give you an idea of the odds: I was the first client of my accountant (at the time) had been subjected to a TCMP audit. But, he was at least aware of the program.

I've posted about it before on FR, and a person purporting to be a CPA claimed he/she had never heard of one, and that there was always some reason for an audit.

I was aware of the program because years ago, I saw a news story about a child with a paper route was subjected to a TCMP audit. His father called the local TV station, and hilarity ensued.

[Roos_Girl]

And don’t we know Freepers who were targeted during the Clinton years?