- 7 - the tax products branch of the IRS in Washington, D.C. As part of his job, Mr. Farah supervises the employees who are responsible for the administration of contracts with private print vendors (vendors). The IRS contracts with the vendors to mass produce and mail to taxpayers the tax forms and instructions booklets such as the one received by petitioner. Pursuant to these contracts, the taxpayers’ addresses are downloaded from the IRS’s master file database at Martinsberg, W. Va. This information is stored on cassettes and sent to the vendors. The vendors contract with a National Change of Address (NCOA) licensee which has access to the NCOA file that the U.S. Postal Service maintains in Memphis, Tennessee. The NCOA licensee matches the names and addresses from the IRS master file with the NCOA database. Old addresses are replaced with new addresses that were submitted to the post office, and they are stored on the cassette. Mr. Farah testified that neither the NCOA licensee nor the vendor notifies the IRS about the changed addresses. The vendors use the new addresses for the mailing of the tax booklets, and the new addresses are printed on labels inside the booklets for the taxpayers’ use in filing their returns. Each label is coded to reflect that a change of address has occurred. When the IRS receives a return with a preprinted label reflecting a new address, it makes the address change in its master file.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
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