Style Guide Divide
In 2010, this law was passed by Congress requiring federal agencies, including the IRS, use “clear government communication that the public can understand and use.”
What is the Plain Writing Act of 2010?
In 1967, New York passed a law to require that these be yellow.
What is taxi?
In this year, the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service called the Taxpayer Advocate the “voice of the taxpayer.”
What is 1997?
This famous gangster was convicted of tax evasion in 1931.
Who is Al Capone?
The National Taxpayer Advocate began writing one of these in 2012.
What is NTA Blog?
Attorneys and government agencies like to write information so that it hides who is responsible for the action. In TAS, we strive to use this technique to show the subject of the sentence performs the action expressed in the very [blank].
What is active voice?
You might choose this as a retirement hobby if you enjoy stuffing or mounting animals.
What is taxidermy?
This was established to govern the way TAS fulfills its mission.
What is TAS’s Guiding Principles?
This Disney cartoon character encouraged Americans to pay their taxes and take deDUCKtions in 1942.
What is Donald Duck?
This type of incident is designed to steal money or personal information and is becoming more sophisticated and difficult to prevent, particularly because of technology and identity theft.
What is scam?
The AP Style doesn’t require the use of this contentious punctuation mark, but the IRS, TAS, and CSO style guides do.
What is Oxford comma?
A key feature of plain language requires a focus on this word for the arrangement of words and phrases to make well-formed sentences.
What is syntax?
What year was the Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2 signed into law?
What is 1996?
Japanese poem
5/7/5 syllable count
Simplify tax code
What is haiku?
We phone into this type of communication mechanism, on which we spend a large amount of our time.
What is call?
Previously abbreviated SNOD, we now always spell out this phrase.
What is statutory notice of deficiency?
This kind of tax is added to certain items that have already been taxed.
What is surtax?
This person is appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury after consultation with the Commissioner of the IRS.
What is National Taxpayer Advocate?
Before TAMIS, TAS case advocacy used this system for case management information?
What is PROMIS?
Arguably worse than the canned version, this is a type of junk mail.
What is spam?
When referencing a chart, graph, or table, we use this all-inclusive term in our print publications.
What is figure?
This medical term refers to a nose bleed.
What is epistaxis?
The Annual Report to Congress requires that the National Taxpayer Advocate address 20 of these.
What are "most serious problems"?
The key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphics, this artifact is mostly about taxes.
What is Rosetta Stone?
Striking fear in the hearts of math haters everywhere, this term references facts and statistics for analysis or reference.
What is data?