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Internal Revenue Service
Advisory Council to the Internal
Revenue Service; Meeting
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service
Advisory Council (IRSAC) will hold a
public meeting on Wednesday,
November 18, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Lorenza Wilds, IRSAC Program
Manager, National Public Liaison, CL:
NPL, 7559, 1111 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20224.
Telephone: 202–317–6851 (not a tollfree number). Email address:
PublicLiaison@irs.gov.
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hereby given pursuant to section
10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988), a
public meeting of the IRSAC will be
held on Wednesday, November 18,
2015, from 9:20 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660
Woodley Road NW., Virginia Ballroom,
Washington, DC 20008. Issues to be
discussed include, but not limited to:
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Director, National Public Liaison.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request for Form 4506–A
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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Public Law 104–13(44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is
soliciting comments concerning Form
4506–A, Request for Public Inspection
or Copy of Exempt or Political
Organization IRS Form.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before January 4, 2016 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Michael A. Joplin, Internal Revenue
Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the form and instructions
should be directed to Martha R. Brinson,
Internal Revenue Service, Room 6129,
1111 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20224, or through the
Internet at Martha.R.Brinson@irs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Request for Public Inspection or
Copy of Exempt or Political
Organization IRS Form.
OMB Number: 1545–0495.
Form Number: 4506–A.
Abstract: Internal Revenue Code
section 6104 states that if an
organization described in section 501(c)
or (d) is exempt from taxation under
section 501(a) for any taxable year, the
application for exemption is open for
public inspection. This includes all
supporting documents, any letter or
other documents issued by the IRS
concerning the application, and certain
annual returns of the organization. Form
4506–A is used to request public
inspection or a copy of these
documents.
Current Actions: There are no changes
being made to the form at this time.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households, business or other for-profit
organizations, not-for-profit institutions,
farms, and Federal, state, local or tribal
governments.
Estimated Number of Responses:
20,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 57
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 19,400.
The following paragraph applies to all
of the collections of information covered
by this notice:
An agency may not conduct or sponsor,
and a person is not required to respond to,
a collection of information unless the
collection of information displays a valid
OMB control number. Books or records
relating to a collection of information must
be retained as long as their contents may
become material in the administration of any
internal revenue law. Generally, tax returns
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and tax return information are confidential,
as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103.
Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information.
Approved: October 19, 2015.
Michael A. Joplin,
IRS Reports Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request for Consumer Tipping Survey
Study
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is
soliciting comments concerning the
consumer tipping survey study.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before January 4, 2016 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Christie Preston, Internal Revenue
Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the form and instructions
should be directed to R. Joseph Durbala,
(202) 622–3634, at Internal Revenue
Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224, or
through the internet at
RJoseph.Durbala@irs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Consumer Tipping Survey
Study.
OMB Number: 1545–2261.
Form Number: Survey.
Abstract: The IRS is charged with
collecting revenue legally owed to the
federal government. One important
category of income comes in the form of
tips. Previous empirical research has
shown income from tips to be
significantly underreported, limiting the
IRS’s ability to collect the proper
amount of tax revenue. The IRS believes
a new study of consumer tipping
practices is needed in order to better
understand current tip reporting
behavior so tax administrators and
policy makers can make the tax system
fairer and more efficient. Therefore, the
IRS wishes to develop updated
estimates of consumer tipping revenue
across numerous services where tipping
is prevalent.
In support of this mission, IRS is
seeking a standard clearance to conduct
a minimum, one-year fielding of a
nation-wide consumer tipping survey.
The sample that would be used for this
study, Ipsos’ non-probability online
panel, was only selected after a pilot
study was conducted which compared
the results from this vendor to another
panel source (GfK KnowledgePanel, a
probability-based online panel) and an
independent source of tipping data in
order to determine which method
yielded the most accurate results while
reducing respondent burden and cost to
the IRS. The findings from the pilot
study demonstrated that there were no
consistent differences in the results
gathered from the panels when
compared against each other or when
compared against the 3rd party source
of data. As such, the decision was made
to use the non-probability panel due to
the reduced cost per completed survey,
which will allow for a larger data
collection and more precise estimates of
tipping behavior for certain, lowincidence services.
This initiative flows from Goal 1 of
the IRS Strategic Plan for FY 2014–2017:
Deliver high quality and timely service
to reduce taxpayer burden and
encourage voluntary compliance.
Current Actions: The main goal for
this survey effort is to generate
statistically valid estimates of tipped
income in a variety of services for which
no such estimates exist, in addition to
providing information on other
correlates of tipped income and
behavior including, but not limited to,
regional or seasonal fluctuations in
tipped income. As such, this survey
effort requests a full-fielding of the
previously tested pilot survey for the
course of calendar year 2016. This will
result in an estimated burden increase
of 6,427 hours. This form is being
submitted to update the current OMB
approval.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
The burden hour estimates
breakdown as follows:
NON-PROBABILITY SAMPLE
Number of
respondents
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Category of respondent/activity
Participation time
(minutes)
Burden hours
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Read Reminder Email * ...........................................................................................................
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461,540
431,540
60,000
0.5
0.25
** 5.5
3,846
1,798
5,500
Total Burden Hours ..........................................................................................................
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11,144
* The estimate for the Reminder emails is based on the assumption that 50% of the needed respondents will complete the survey online in
time to not receive the Reminder email.
** Participant time is based on mean completion time for non-probability panel members during pilot survey fielding.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Form 4506-A
AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13(44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is soliciting comments concerning
Form 4506-A, Request for Public Inspection or Copy of Exempt or
Political Organization IRS Form.
DATES: Written comments should be received on or before January 4, 2016
to be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Michael A. Joplin, Internal
Revenue Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20224.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the form and instructions should be directed to Martha R.
Brinson, Internal Revenue Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20224, or through the Internet at
Martha.R.Brinson@irs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Request for Public Inspection or Copy of Exempt or Political
Organization IRS Form.
OMB Number: 1545-0495.
Form Number: 4506-A.
Abstract: Internal Revenue Code section 6104 states that if an
organization described in section 501(c) or (d) is exempt from taxation
under section 501(a) for any taxable year, the application for
exemption is open for public inspection. This includes all supporting
documents, any letter or other documents issued by the IRS concerning
the application, and certain annual returns of the organization. Form
4506-A is used to request public inspection or a copy of these
documents.
Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the form at
this time.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit organizations, not-for-profit institutions, farms, and Federal,
state, local or tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Responses: 20,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 57 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 19,400.
The following paragraph applies to all of the collections of
information covered by this notice:
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of information unless the
collection of information displays a valid OMB control number. Books
or records relating to a collection of information must be retained
as long as their contents may become material in the administration
of any internal revenue law. Generally, tax returns
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and tax return information are confidential, as required by 26
U.S.C. 6103.
Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of public record. Comments are invited
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information.
Approved: October 19, 2015.
Michael A. Joplin,
IRS Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-27808 Filed 10-30-15; 8:45 am]
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