Practitioners will tell you the most frequent error they see on such forms is the distribution code.

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The (often incorrect) distribution code is also what seems to toggle IRS to send out the CP-2000 notice.

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Box 7 (indicated by the orange arrow) is the distribution code.

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"Chat is a conduit for distribution of malicious code, " Rouland says.

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After all, the current distribution of the tax code is not written on stone tablets.

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The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.

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Trade secrets also protects software source code and sometimes other aspects of software, such as proprietary limited-distribution documentation.

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