Editor's Note
Iris, your IRS helper, has a public service announcement for
you: It's not too late to get your stimulus payment. The IRS is
continuing to devote time and money trying to track down low-
income taxpayers, retirees, and veterans who might not be
required to file income tax returns, in an effort to get
everyone on the stimulus payment bandwagon. A new mailing is
going out to 5.2 million people, most of whom are not required
to file tax returns, suggesting they file a form to request
their rebate payment. Our tax dollars are of course paying for
all of these administrative costs. Is this merely an election
ploy to make the current administration look like the good
guys, or is this a subversive means of getting millions of non-
taxpaying citizens on the federal radar?
Listen to Iris's announcement.
Best regards,
Gail Perry, CPA
Managing Editor
AccountingWEB, Inc.
editor@accountingweb.com
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The Internal Revenue Service is reminding qualifying retirees
and veterans that it is not too late to file for an economic
stimulus payment and announced it will send a second set of
information packets to 5.2 million people who may be eligible
but who have not yet filed for their stimulus payment.
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inevitable come 2010 when the Bush administration tax cuts cease.
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2008 the time to file certain tax returns, to make certain tax
payments, and to perform time-sensitive acts for storm, flood,
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with the Qualified Intermediary program. That program began in
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