2002 Data Book.IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. 2003-38 discusses the IRS's 2002 Data Book, which includes a variety of numbers on tax administration, ranging from figures of returns filed to examination and collection numbers. Among the highlights: * For fiscal-year 2002, gross collections totaled $2 trillion One thousand times one billion, which is 1, followed by 12 zeros, or 10 to the 12th power. See space/time. (mathematics) trillion - In Britain, France, and Germany, 10^18 or a million cubed. In the USA and Canada, 10^12. from 227 million returns filed. The total refunds issued were $284 billion, of which $210 billion were for individual returns. * The Data Book details the increasing success of- IRS e-filing. Of the 131 million individual income tax returns filed, 47 million were e-filed during 2002, up from 40 million reported in the 2001 IRS Data Book. To access the 2002 IRS Data Book from the IRS Website (www.irs.gov), click on "Tax Stats" in the upper left-hand corner and select "IRS Data Book" under "Statistical Publications." The complete report appears in .pdf format (Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. Acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF. required); the 32 tables and related footnotes appear separately in Excel A full-featured spreadsheet for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. It can link many spreadsheets for consolidation and provides a wide variety of business graphics and charts for creating presentation materials. 4 format. Published copies of the 2002 Data Book (Pub. 55B) are available from the U.S. Government Printing Office; write to the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954, or call (202) 512-1800 (voicemail) or (202) 512-2250 (fax). |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion