to the u.s. meanwhile it is tax day. if you want to avoid an audit pay attention because where you live counts. alison kosik here with that. zip code matters. people actually, what? cheat on their taxes? oh, my goodness. here s what s interesting. it turns out that there are people in certain states that are more likely to cheat on their taxes so the irs is on to that and they re more likely to pay close attention to those places. drumroll, please. according to the associated press. here are those cities, you see them there, san francisco, l.a., houston, atlanta, washington, d.c. a national taxpayer advocate study, what it did was it focused on small business owners because they got more opportunity to cheat on their taxes. shame. shame, shame, shame. because they got a lot of write-offs. you may not report all of their earnings. a common theme with some of these cities, though, they have high incomes. and irs data show as a business s incomes go up, so do its chances of being
together . ben bernanke said we have another five years of being in the weeds here and he was right. so you ve got to make sure you get in in the market that you want to be in and don t treat your house like an atm machine, treat it like not just as an investment but as shelter. a market that you want to be in and really i tell you something else more than anything before zip code matters, location matters more than ever before. a longtime horizon that you re going to stay in that home for a longtime if you have that in mind i think you ll be find. alison: what is going to turn that around. i think we are doing better than we should be. those that can afford loans are getting them those that can t are not. save your money consumers, when you can sleep at in it and you can afford a loan there is usually a loan for you. they need to loosen up the lending restrictions a little bit so people will buy homes. as long as we have that balance one state that is really in trouble, thou