Want to limit the scope of a tax examination and gain more control over the audit process? Here’s how.

The Internal Revenue Service has long provided corporate taxpayers the opportunity to streamline examinations, through its Quality Examination Process, designed to improve communication and transparency between the IRS and corporate taxpayers. The focus of the program essentially puts the IRS and corporate taxpayers on equal footing for ensuring that a tax examination runs smoothly, and allows the taxpayer greater involvement in the audit process. But companies have typically struggled to navigate the particular aspects of the program.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...