Internal Revenue Service

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Oct 2006	Number of Americans whose past-due accounts the IRS will turn over to private debt collectors by 2008: 350,000	Harper's Index Source: Internal Revenue Service (Washington)
Oct 2006	Portion of the IRS's staff of estate-tax auditors that the government plans to eliminate this year: 2/5	Harper's Index Source: National Treasury Employees Union (Washington)
Oct 2003	Years before Enron declared bankruptcy in 2001 that the IRS asked the SEC to investigate the firm : 2.5	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Apr 1998	Portion of IRS audits that are conducted on large corporations: 1/500	Harper's Index Source: IRS
Apr 1998	Portion of fines levied and underpayments cited by the IRS each year for which large corporations are responsible: 1/2	Harper's Index Source: IRS

October 29, 2004	The IRS decided to investigate the tax-exempt status of the NAACP.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
June 26, 2003	The Internal Revenue Service reported that the nation's wealthiest 400 taxpayers earned an average $174 million in 2000 (totaling 1.1 percent of all reported income); in 1992 that group averaged $46.8 million (0.5 percent of all reported income).	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
September 17, 2002	The Internal Revenue Service announced that it will audit more rich people.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
July 24, 2001	The IRS sent about 523,000 notices to taxpayers mistakenly informing them that they would get the maximum possible refund check under President Bush's tax-cut plan.	Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi and Elizabeth Giddens
September 5, 2000	The IRS ruled that the parents of a child who has been kidnapped may continue to take a deduction for the first year the child is missing, but not thereafter.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

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