IRS Launches E Mail News Service For Tax Professionals

by Leroy Baker, Tax-News.com, New York

09 August 2004

The Internal Revenue Service is launching a new service to make technical guidance available via e-mail to tax professionals when the documents are issued.

“This is an easy way for tax professionals to get copies of important guidance quickly and directly,” observed IRS Chief Counsel Don Korb, adding:

“This is a valuable resource tool for people who need time-sensitive guidance in advance of publication in the Internal Revenue Bulletin.”

Through the IRS Guidewire list server, subscribers will receive notification of and links to IRS announcements, notices, revenue procedures and revenue rulings as they are issued.

The IRS has several other e-mail services available besides Guidewire, including:

• A weekly summary of IRS technical guidance and other important news is available by subscribing to the Digital Dispatch.
• News releases which are available on a same-day basis through the IRS Newswire.
• IRS Tax Tips, which provide helpful tax information for taxpayers. Tax Tips are distributed on a daily basis during the filing season in January through April, and periodically through the rest of the year.

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