WHY ARE RETURNS SELECTED FOR FIELD manner before this meeting, you may be able to two weeks after the auditor’s “initial field work” visit Wisconsin AUDIT? resolve unclear items with the least amount of time begins, whichever comes first, the auditor will meet Department of Revenue and effort. The auditor may also want to meet with with you to discuss and verbally establish three you again at various times during the audit to ask time periods for the conduct of the audit. For this The usual reason for selecting Wisconsin tax re-questions about certain transactions. purpose, “initial field work” is defined as when the turns for field audit is to verify the correctness of auditor starts auditing your records in the field, various items (income, sales, purchases, invento- which typically begins on the day of your first meet-ries, and deductions) that have been reported on HOW MANY YEARS WILL BE AUDITED? ing with the auditor. These three time periods are the returns. as follows: A field audit will generally include the tax returns The majority of taxpayers are honest and have for the last four years. Wisconsin Statutes 1. The number of days you have to respond to nothing to fear from an examination of their Wis- (secs. 71.77(2), 77.59(3), 78.70(7), 139.092, written information requests made by the audi-consin tax returns. The fact that returns have been 139.39(6), and 139.83) state that a notice of as- tor. selected for field audit does ...