As a separate matter, the IRS measures the return on investment (ROI) of its enforcement activities, but not its taxpayer service activities.
The National Taxpayer Advocate has recommended the IRS develop ROIs for its taxpayer service initiatives and measures that create better incentives for IRS leaders to adopt procedures that prevent delinquencies and promote voluntary compliance.
The combination of growing tax code complexity, last minute tax tinkering, and underfunding of taxpayer service at the IRS, she argues, burdens honest taxpayers and leaves ordinary folks suspicious of the system and readier to fudge themselves.
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According to the U.S. Taxpayer Advocate Service, there were 44 such disputes in 2005.
The IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service estimates that requirement will affect 40 million businesses.
According to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, about 310 taxpayers opted out of the 2009 and 2011 offshore voluntary disclosure programs.
Just a few days before Geithner's embarrassing revelation, the Taxpayer Advocate Service issued its annual report to U.S. Congress. (The service, part of the IRS, was designed to help taxpayers resolve complaints with the agency that can't be resolved through normal channels.) The report was an eye-opener as to just how horrifically complicated the code has become.
Just a few days before Geithner's embarrassing revelation, the Taxpayer Advocate Service issued its annual report to Congress. (The service is part of the IRS and was designed to help taxpayers resolve complaints with the agency that can't be resolved through normal channels.) The report was an eye-opener as to just how horrifically complicated the code has become.
Although the Notice of Claim Disallowance letter sent by the Service generally contains a statement advising the taxpayer that the two-year period began on the date of the letter, the Service occasionally mails these letters without the paragraph notifying the taxpayer of the two-year period for filing suit.
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The Internal Revenue Service has taxpayer information on the 10% tax on early distributions from IRAs here and on early distributions from retirement accounts other than IRAs here.
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Or, consider this gem: In an offer in compromise, a taxpayer asks the Internal Revenue Service to settle for less than he owes, on the grounds that he can't pay it all and is coming up with cash that the IRS wouldn't get otherwise--say from his relatives or retirement account.
Tax season officially got started yesterday as the Internal Revenue Service began accepting most taxpayer returns.
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As no controlling authority requires the Service to send the taxpayer a statement regarding the limitations period, the lack of such language does not invalidate a disallowance letter.
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Each year for the past decade, Nina Olsen, the National Taxpayer Advocate at the Internal Revenue Service, has issued a report to Congress on the most serious problems facing taxpayers.
It will be a mixture of the worker, the pensioner, the public service consumer, the taxpayer and the banker - and all politics right now is about what the mix should be.
Contrary to popular belief, the Postal Service does not rely on taxpayer funds to function.
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John Corey of the public service union Nipsa said the termination of the project was "in the best interests of the civil service and the Northern Ireland taxpayer".
Ford was known for his obsession with customer service and efficient use of taxpayer money, and many conservative voters wanted to punish City Hall for gridlock and waste, Nanos said.
The Postal Service is supposed to operate without taxpayer dollars.
When the government decided to replace the Post Office Department with the U.S. Postal Service in 1971, it exchanged a taxpayer-dependent bureaucracy with a government-owned business that was supposed to rely on the sale of postage, mail products, and services for revenue.
It appears that Mr Fox may have been getting and seeking private advice paid for by political sympathisers without the restraints placed on political advisers who work within the civil service and are paid for by the taxpayer - the political equivalent of the banks' "off balance sheet" activity.
The taxpayer should not be entitled to a refund from the Service when he has received through the preparer the amount to which he was in fact entitled.
Historical data of taxpayer records made available by the United States Internal Revenue Service and publicly available at www.howmoneywalks.com offer a long-term look at why upstate New York deserves real tax breaks rather than more excuses.
Tens of thousands of people have joined a Twitter group expressing pride in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), which offers free taxpayer-funded medical care to all British residents, while leading politicians have spoken out in support.
Following the January tax law changes made by Congress under the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA), the Internal Revenue Service announced today it plans to open the 2013 filing season and begin processing individual income tax returns on Jan. 30.
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What was sent to the Service is a document unknown and unverified by the taxpayer.
The return is a nullity because the electronic file submitted to the Service is a document unknown and unverified by the taxpayer.
The Internal Revenue Service has announced updates in procedure with respect to Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) requirements.
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Using the same rationale in issue 1, the taxpayer has signed and verified documents that was not sent to the Service.
Americans now spend a combined 6.1 billion man-hours completing their taxes each year, according to a report from the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, which plays the role of ombudsman within the Internal Revenue Service.
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