Special studies in Federal tax statistics: 2002.

This is the second edition of a new set in the IRS Methodology Report series, formerly titled Turning Administrative Systems Into Information Systems. It features selected papers given primarily at the 2002 Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association in New York City and at the 2002 National Tax Association Conference in Orlando, FL. The volume is divided into seven major sections. It begins with two papers on recent IRS research concerning Federal tax issues. Section 2 includes a group of four papers on methodological and analytical advances in tax statistics. Section 3 presents two papers on statistical uses of administrative records. Section 4 contains a paper on disseminating IRS locality data. Section 5 includes a paper on confidentiality and data access issues. Section 6 presents a paper on measuring the quality of IRS responses to taxpayer inquiries. Finally, Section 7 includes two papers on distributional theory and computation.

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