Pennsylvania Sampling Bibliography

Statutes

• Pennsylvania Statutes, tit.72, sec. 9915-A. (Authorizes Department of Revenue to use sampling in examinations).

• 61 Pennsylvania Code of Regulations sec. 8a.1. (This revised regulation received final approval from the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission in January 1998. This regulation authorizes auditors to use either block sampling or statistical sampling. Subsections (f) and (g) specify procedures for sample selection, sample size, outliers, and confidence intervals. Subsection (j) allows taxpayers to appeal the accuracy of a test audit by providing clear and convincing evidence that the method used for selecting a statistical sample or block sample test period and determining the tax liability is erroneous, lacks a rational basis or produces a different result when the complete records are considered).
• 61 Pennsylvania Code of Regulations sec. 6.22. (superseded by Regulation section 8a.1)
• 61 Pennsylvania Code of Regulations sec. 35.1. (now refers to new Regulation section 8a.1)

• AWACS, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1995 Pa. Tax LEXIS 2046 (Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, 1995) (Court held that the taxpayer failed to show that the block sample selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue was not representative of the entire period).