This request for
clearance is approved subject to the passage of the Airport and
Airway Improvement Act of 1981. If this legislation is no passed
and approved, the information collection may proceed but the IR is
to either overprint the form deleting the information relating to t
taxes that would have been due under the Act or to otherwise
clearly inform all respondents that the information relating to
these activiti is not required or requested and should not be
entered onto the form. In addition, the Department is to provide
OMB with a revised SF83 as well as copies of the overprinted
material or other instruction about not providing data that was
sent to the taxpayers as a result of nonpassage of the
Airport...Act as well as a revised estimate of the burden of this
information collection activity because the Act did not pass. The
expiration date of June 1984 need not be printed on the form
provided that the Tax Year to which the form pertains is printed.
The OMB inventory will show a burden of 724527 hours for this
activity of which 42,547 is due to correction error and 75,000
hours is being charged to a program change (increase) which is
considered to result from the Airport...Act. OMB will accept a
revision of this accounting if the Department can show that the
Airport...Act does not cause the increase.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
06/30/1984
06/30/1984
12/31/1981
381,200
0
364,000
724,547
0
607,000
0
0
0
FORM 720 IS USED TO REPORT EXCISE
TAXES DUE FROM RETAILERS AND MANUFACTURERS ON THE SALE OR
MANUFACTURE OF VARIOUS ARTICLES, TO REPORT TAXES ON FACILITIES AND
SERVICES, AND TAXES ON CERTAIN PRODUCTS AND COMMODITIES (GASOLINE,
LUBRICATING OIL, ETC.). IT ENABLES IRS TO MONITOR EXCISE TAX
LIABILITY FOR VARIOUS CATEGORIES ON A SINGLE FORM, AND TO COLLECT
THE TAX QUARTERLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW AND REGULATIONS (IRC
SECTION 6011).
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.