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IRS is hip to your jive talk: Yep, they’ve gone YouTube

Thursday Apr 3, 2008

Apparently, the IRS is trying to relate to the current generation. No, they’re not texting you - yet. But they are on YouTube. Here, Linda Stiff (acting IRS Commish - no jokes about her name) talks about rebate checks - apparently Alan Thicke was unavailable:

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The Poll Tax is Gone But…

Wednesday Nov 28, 2007

Voting and paying taxes are still hand in hand. The IRS has admitted that it has collected information on the political party affiliations of taxpayers in 20 states, while vowing that it has never used the information. This, of course, begs the question “why do it?”

The states for which political party affiliation data were collected are Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin. In these states, voters must register as a member of a party and this information is publicly available.

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