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Article: SEN. BAUCUS CALLS FOR BETTER COMMUNICATION AT IRS FOR FEWER AUDIT MISTAKES, BETTER TAXPAYER SERVICE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 18, 2006
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The ranking Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee issued the following press release:
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, responded today to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concerning the IRS appeals process. Examiners from the IRS compliance division audit taxpayer returns and can make adjustments resulting in taxpayers owing more tax, and taxpayers who are unsatisfied with the adjustment can appeal to the IRS appeals division. In the report, requested by Baucus and Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), GAO estimated that 41 percent of appeals resolved in 2004 were not fully sustained, which ...