98-12728. Notice of Meeting With Current and Prospective Tax Software Developers for Electronic Filing of Form 1065, U.S. Partnership Return of Income

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26681-26682]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12728]


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DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service


Notice of Meeting With Current and Prospective Tax Software 
Developers for Electronic Filing of Form 1065, U.S. Partnership Return 
of Income

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.

SUMMARY: This announcement serves as notice that the Internal Revenue 
Service will hold a meeting of current and prospective tax software 
developers to share the thinking about the strategic direction for 
mandating electronic filing for partnerships with more than 100 
partners and to get initial reactions from the software developers to 
these strategies. In addition to discussing partnership returns, 
information will be provided on other electronic business returns and a 
session will be held to address questions from the March 3 and 4, 1998 
software developers meeting.

DATES: The tentative agenda is as follows: June 16 from 12:30 pm to 
4:30 pm will be for the issues from the March 3-4, 1998 software 
developers meeting; June 17 from 9:30 am to 4 pm, discussion on the 
Form 1065 electronic filing strategy; and on June 18 from 9 am to 11:30 
am, information on electronically filed business returns will be 
discussed.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the New Carrollton Federal 
Building, 5000 Ellin Road, B1-303, Lanham, MD 20706 Room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions or concerns should be 
directed to Lee Lawrence at IRS, Electronic Tax Administration, 
T:ETA:O, 5000 Ellin Road C4-237, Lanham, MD 20706 or by telephone at 
[phone] (not a toll-free number). To register for this meeting, 
please call Carol Jakes at [phone]. A registration form will be 
mailed or faxed which must be completed and returned to the IRS by June 
8, 1998. If you have any questions or issues which you would like to 
have addressed during the meeting, you may submit them

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beforehand by faxing them to: Lee Lawrence ETA [phone].
Terry Lutes,
National Director, Electronic Program Operations Office, Electronic Tax 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-12728 Filed 5-12-98; 8:45 am]
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