{"id":486,"date":"2013-05-16T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-05-16T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:18:03","slug":"increase-in-audits-of-estate-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/increase-in-audits-of-estate-tax-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in Audits of Estate Tax Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Taxes - Illustration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47422005@N04\/6262484026\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6116\/6262484026_ca2163d6bf_m.jpg\" alt=\"Taxes - Illustration\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be careful when signing the federal 706 Estate Tax return.<\/p>\n<p>According to Frank Byrt of Accounting Web:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The IRS scrutinized estate tax returns more than any category of individual tax returns in tax year 2011, at close to a 30 percent rate of examination, while individual income tax returns with $1 million or more in income saw a slight decline in audit coverage, according to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-soi\/12databk.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Internal Revenue Service Data Book<\/a>,&#8221; issued March 25.<\/p>\n<p>See the entire article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountingweb.com\/article\/irs-2011-audit-rates-show-estate-tax-returns-under-microscope\/221442\" target=\"_blank\">Accounting Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a>\u00a0credit:\u00a0<a title=\"DonkeyHotey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47422005@N04\/6262484026\/\" target=\"_blank\">DonkeyHotey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful when signing the federal 706 Estate Tax return. According to Frank Byrt of Accounting Web: The IRS scrutinized estate tax returns more than any category of individual tax returns in tax year 2011, at close to a 30 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/increase-in-audits-of-estate-tax-returns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,4],"tags":[133,134,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rbillingslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}