The latest available data from the IRS show that the pace of corporate audits is running well below the record-low levels of FY 2003...The finding about slumping corporate audits conflicts with repeated statements by IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson in the weeks before the April 15 tax-filing day asserting that the agency had halted the long slide in the government's efforts to police corporate non-compliance. Both the IRS Oversight Board and the GAO have expressed concern about the impact of the decline in IRS audits.