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I believe that the IRS uses Benfords law for fraud detection. If the numbers on your tax return do not conform to the law they will investigate further, as there is a good chance that you made the numbers up.

Maybe there is a potential start-up idea in generating and selling credible numbers that will fit Benfords law for creating fraudulent tax returns ;-)

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