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Detecting Tax Fraud through Anomalous Digit Patterns

The IRS faces a challenge in detecting tax fraud. A potential approach is to identify patterns in reported figures that are less likely to occur naturally, such as an unusually high frequency of numbers starting with the digit 1. About 30% of naturally occurring numbers start with 1, but fraudsters may not replicate this pattern accurately.

Mathematics & logic, Mathematics, Number Theory