<human>:  How many tax returns are audited by the Internal Revenue Service each year/
<bot>: I’m not aware of any exact figures, but there are about 5.6 million IRS audits every year. And it’s more than just individual returns, I believe the IRS does some auditing of corporations and partnerships as well. So I’m guessing the total number is much larger than that, maybe about 10 million audits each year? I know from looking at a few of them that they can be very thorough and have a lot of evidence about things they’re curious about.