[jandrese]

What does it even mean to meet the criteria to be audited? I got a letter this year saying that my refund would take an extra 6-8 weeks due to some extra scrutiny on the IRSes part, but they never asked for the receipts or for me to come in so what happened?

As far as I know there wasn't anything especially fishy about my taxes. I did file early (first week of Feb) because we needed the refund, but that alone seems like a poor reason to audit someone's taxes.

I guess the other new thing was that they made me verify my address and bank account numbers to verify that I'm not some scammer trying to steal someone else's refund, but that made little sense because it is the same account I've had the refund deposited in for the past 18 years and my address has not changed in 9. All it did in the end was add an extra month and a half to the refund.