Income Tax Fundamentals 2020
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ISBN: 9780357391129
Author: WHITTENBURG
Publisher: Cengage
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Chapter 12, Problem 11P
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Introduction: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a wide range of functions and responsibilities such as look after of administration of federal taxes, and to perform duties like estimating, determining, and collecting taxes in the form of revenue to the government, it also performs tax return audits and imposes penal provisions. It is the office within the revenue department. The task of the department is to provide the taxpayers with quality service by assisting them in proving knowledge content so the taxpayers understand their tax responsibility and pay taxes timely. It is important in maintaining and establishing tax laws.
The list of 4 taxpayer’s bill of rights.
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