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Internal Revenue Service: IRS Initiatives to Resolve Disputes Over Tax Liabilities

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 9, 1997
Report No. GGD-97-71
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Summary:

Each year, thousands of disputes arise between taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over billions of dollars in additional taxes recommended by IRS auditors. IRS eventually resolves most of these disputes over tax liability without litigation, but negotiations can take years and hundreds of staff hours for disputes involving large amounts. Since 1990, IRS has introduced several initiatives to provide alternatives to litigation for resolving tax disputes. This report (1) analyzes IRS' design of these initiatives and taxpayers' use of them to resolve disputes between IRS and taxpayers over tax liability and (2) analyzes IRS' plans for evaluating the effects of its new initiatives on the stated goals.

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