Administration officialswill hold a series of events across the country leading up to the April 15th tax filing deadline to help educate taxpayers on the Recovery Act benefits available to them when they file their taxes this year.
It is also trying to make political capital out of the fact that Mr Howard will not be in Australia when the tax begins but leading a party of former Australian prime ministers and officials to Britain to mark the centenary of the act of Parliament on July 9th 1900 that set up Australia's federation.