The IRS is not adequately funded to serve taxpayers and collect taxes
What is the most serious problem encountered by taxpayers?
100
The EITC, the additional child tax credit, and the fuel tax credit.
What are refundable tax credits administered by the IRS?
100
This makes international markets and investments more accessible to small businesses
and individuals.
What is globalization?
100
This is the percentage of people in the U.S. who speak a language other than english at home.
What is 1/5?
100
The IRS is the bureau of this department.
What is Department of the Treasury?
200
The IRS is unable to adequately meet the service needs of the taxpaying public.
What is a consequence of the most serious problem facing U.S. taxpayers?
200
The IRS uses this method instead of face-to-face examinations in many areas.
What is automation?
200
The IRS established the Multilingual Initiative
Program to help this group of people.
What are Limited English Proficient taxpayers?
200
This is the percentage of the U.S. population that qualify as low income individuals.
What is 15.1%
200
This is how the IRS responds to questions?
What is by mail and by phone?
300
The one agency of the federal government
with which most Americans interact every year.
What is IRS?
300
When a taxpayer’s return is inconsistent with information the IRS receives from third parties, the IRS often assumes the return is wrong and the third-party data are correct
— without conducting an actual examination.
What is done today by the IRS as a result of automation?
300
The full name for the IRS Form 1040NR.
What is U.S. Nonresident Alien Income
Tax Return?
300
This is the percentage of the U.S. population that are foreign-born.
What is 1/8?
300
This is the number of problems that the National
Taxpayer Advocate has identified, analyzed, and offered recommendations to assist the IRS.
What is 22?
400
Cut by an additional 2.5 percent for
Fy 2012.
How is the IRS's budget for 2012 affected?
400
The Automated Questionable Refund (AQR) pilot.
What is established to prevent improper refunds?
400
The full name of Form 1040NR-EZ.
What is U.S. Income Tax Return for Certain Nonresident Aliens with No Dependents?
400
This percentage of the U.S. population is age 65 or over.
What is 13%?
400
This is what the collection process begins with.
What is Notice Stream?
500
To serve U.S. taxpayers both individually and collectively.
What is assigned mission of the IRS?
500
The right to avoid repetitive and unnecessary examinations and be informed about how the IRS selects returns for examination.
What are the taxpayers' rights during an examination?
500
The foreign cities of in-person taxpayer services provided by the IRS to help foreign taxpayer.
What is London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Beijing?
500
This is the percentage of the U.S. population that lives in urban areas.
What is 79%?
500
This government agency should provide taxpayers with the information they need to meet their tax obligations, answer their questions, and provide prompt and effective service when compliance problems arise.