They sometimes do free energy audits.

Documentation, documentation, documentation is absolutely critical if you expect to pass an audit.  

If the IRS gets busy auditing them, maybe they will leave you alone.

Then you need someone to make sure you're audit ready because that's a new IRS campaign-the bigger the dollar amount, the more likely you're going to find yourself in an audit.

Right now interest rates are low but when they rise in future years banks will do audits on their loans to see if they can call them to re-lend the money out at higher rates.Everyone wants to maximize that dollar!

I'd suggest phrasing it a bit differently, though, if I may......ppl can only give advice about something they're impartial about and have no conflict of interest - otherwise, they're just selling you...

On the other hand, paying a 13-year old $20K to sweep the floor and empty trash cans does not seem to be reasonable and may not survive an audit. 

If they do see something like that or it comes out that their documents do not comply through an audit process, they will certainly have some thoughts.

There are ratios for NIBT and NI by industry to the size of operations that can be assessed at a glance by lenders, if you fall outside the norm, either way, the situation will be looked at more closely.If you have a portfolio loan at a bank, you're betting bank examiners will miss it in a loan audit, highly unlikely.

Just had an interesting conversation with my CPA, he says he has never had as many audits ordered this month, and he has been doing taxes for over 20 years.