Punctuation matters.Sometimes, punctuation--or lack thereof--can foil an e-fling effort. At the 2004 IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. Liaison Meeting in November, John DiCarlo, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. , of Long Beach, said that a missing hyphen hyphen: see punctuation. in a client's federal identification number caused rejection of an e-filed return. And Redwood City CPA Michael O'Connor said that when he e-filed his own 2003 tax statement, the IRS website bounced it several times. Apparently, the system would not accept the apostrophe apostrophe, figure of speech apostrophe, figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. in his name. He noted that he always had included the apostrophe on paper returns in previous years. IRS employees never enter apostrophes in names when transcribing paper returns, according to Ted Meyer, compliance program manager for the IRS Small Business, Self-Employed Division. |
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