Six Organizations Win IRS Quality Awards

WASHINGTON - Representatives of six organizations that supply taxpayers and the IRS with large numbers of income and tax data on information documents today received the first IRS Quality Supplier Awards.

The awards were presented for transmitting, via magnetic media, information documents with no formatting or validity errors. The six organizations each filed more than 500,000 information documents without errors annually for 1989 and 1990.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fred Goldberg made the award presentations here at the first meeting of the IRS Information Reporting Advisory Committee.

Each year the IRS processes over 700 million Form 1099 information documents reporting income such as interest and dividends, and over 200 million W-2 wage and tax statement forms. About 50 million erroneous information returns a year enter the tax system. There are some 34,000 transmitters of information documents, with 278 filing over 500,000 documents a year. These 278 largest transmitters account for 58 percent of the nearly 700 million information documents, other than Forms W-2, filed annually.

The six transmitters cited today account for about 28 million information returns. The correct transmission of this data helps taxpayers file more accurate and timely returns and reduces unnecessary contacts by the IRS.

The IRS said that the Quality Supplier Award is just one part of the quality plan for its Information Reporting Program that includes visiting and assisting transmitters with problems; expending the number of seminars held at the IRS' Martinsburg, W.Va., Computing Center, and setting up a customer service telephone hot line, initially for transmitters in New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

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