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Report: IRS Burned 6.7 Billion Burden Hours WASHINGTON, Apr. 16, 2003 As of September 30, 2002, federal agencies estimated that there was about 8.2 billion "burden hours" of paperwork government-wide -- and the Internal Revenue Service accounted for 81 percent of this estimate, or 6.7 billion burden hours, the General Accounting Office reported. Despite aggressive efforts to eliminate unnecessary paperwork, the IRS increased its paperwork estimate by about 330 million burden hours during fiscal year 2002, which the agency said was primarily caused by growth in the number of taxpayers using Form 1040.*
The Paperwork Reduction Act requires federal agencies to minimize the paperwork burden they impose on the public. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) commissioned the GAO report to examine paperwork burden estimates, changes, and violations during the past fiscal year.
The accounting office advised OMB to focus more of its burden reduction on the IRS, and to promote the use of best practices used in agencies with good compliance records.
* Source: OMB and the Department of the Treasury |
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