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The IRS Newsstand

News travels fast these days. That's for sure. But now you can get news about taxes and how they may affect your own tax return even faster. That's because many news releases are now available to you at the same time as they are to the news media. So, prop your feet up. Read recent news releases. Scan fact sheets. And get the latest hot-off-the-press tax supplements. Soon you'll be able to read newletters right off the wire. Besides, your TV deserves a little rest.

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IRS Modernization
Learn what IRS modernization is all about and what it means to you.
High Impact Agency Year 2000 Goals
Vice President Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government has named the IRS as one of 32 "High Impact Agencies."
Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA) Reading Room
E-FOIA enables electronic access to federal agency records without a formal FOIA request.
COBRA Health Care Continuation Coverage Notice 98-12
A key decision that millions of Americans face each year is whether to elect "COBRA" health care continuation coverage. In order to make that decision, they need to know about two laws, Cobra and HIPAA. Notice 98-12 provides this information in the form of questions and answers.

This notice is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). If you are unfamiliar with PDF visit our PDF help page. The Acrobat Reader is required to view and print PDF files and is freely available from Adobe's web site.


Special Taxpayer Alerts
We spent the last year and a half updating, fixing and testing all our computer programs — adding new tax law changes and procedures, revising and creating new tax forms and publications, finding and squashing the Y2K bug, etc. But sometimes, despite all our fixing and testing, errors do occur. We'll try to let you know ASAP about a tax processing or notice problem, what it might mean to you, and what, if anything, you need to do about it.





Internal Revenue Service: Budget In Brief Fiscal Year 2000
A 15 page PDF document providing detail on the FY2000 Budget Request and the relationships among the Commissioner's Concept for Modernizing the IRS and RRA98 implementation requirements.
Protecting Federal Tax Information
Agencies receiving Federal tax information must protect it from unauthorized inspection and/or disclosure and from a use not intended. Find out how in IRS Publication 1075, Tax Information Security Guidelines for Federal, State, and Local Agencies.
News Releases And Fact Sheets
The latest breaking information for media distribution.
Tax Calendar for Small Businesses
The Tax Calendar for Small Businesses contains helpful hints, general tax information, a listing of the most common tax filing dates and more, all in one comprehensive publication. You'll want to hang this one on your wall. You can download the calendar in black and white. For a copy in color call 1-800-829-3676 and ask for Publication 1518, Catalog number 12350Z.

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