[Raycpa]

Is it harder for the IRS to audit you, if you send in a paper tax return versus a online?

No discernible difference for CP2000 letters which are simply matching amounts to reported amounts.

For regular audit, the program used to select return for audit may not use paper or efile as an attribute but when it goes for desk review before contacting taxpayer a return prepared by professional may bias the reviewer away from audit. The desk review is somewhat subjective.

[familyop]

"No discernible difference for CP2000 letters which are simply matching amounts to reported amounts."

Like taking amounts from the wrong lines, turning positives into negatives, regarding the negatives as positives and claiming that some nonexistant income came from odd jobs? Looks more like some influence from *outside* of an office somehow getting into that office.

And folks, look at the location of that office (not the office publicized in vulgar political speech). Who stands to make money from such activity? [Hint: not the un-professionals.]