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Excise Tax Prenotification Letter

Dear

I need your help with an important initiative I am undertaking to improve our service to America's taxpayers. I want to get feedback from taxpayers like you who have recently experienced an audit of their excise tax returns, or a review of their Form 637, Application for Registration (For Certain Tax Activities).

In a few days, you will receive a questionnaire asking your opinions about the audit with the IRS. Please direct it to the person who had the most contact with the IRS on this matter. The questionnaire should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Your answers will be combined with others to give us an evaluation of customer satisfaction with IRS service.

To keep all replies anonymous to the IRS, we have asked an independent research company to administer the survey. Pacific Consulting Group/Scantron employees will process the questionnaires and report only statistical totals to us.

I am committed to improving IRS service to every taxpayer. Please help me in this effort by completing and returning the questionnaire as soon as possible. If you do not receive a questionnaire, please contact the Survey Helpline at 1-866-960-7897.

Sincerely,

John H. Imhoff, Jr.

Director, Specialty Programs

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Dear

A few days ago, you received a letter from John H. Imhoff, Jr., Director, Specialty Programs, asking for your help with an important research project.

We are administering a nationwide survey among people who have had contact with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We want to know your opinions about your recent experience with the IRS audit of your excise tax return, or review of your Form 637, Application for Registration (For Certain Excise Tax Activities). Your responses are critical to the accuracy of this research.

We are sending questionnaires to all taxpayers who have gone through a recent examination of an excise tax return. All responses will be anonymous to the IRS, and your participation is voluntary. We will group your responses with all the others we receive, so that no individual reply can be traced back to any one person.

The questionnaire is quite brief and should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Please use the postage-paid reply envelope to return your completed questionnaire. If you have any questions about this survey, please feel free to call the Survey Helpline at 1-866-960-7897.

To verify the authenticity of this survey, please visit IRS.gov and enter the search term “customer surveys.” The IRS Customer Satisfaction Survey page contains a list of valid and current IRS surveys and as of this issuance should provide a reference to SB/SE Excise Tax Examination.

The IRS is committed to improving its performance and service to the American public. A first step in this process is to gather reliable information from those who have had contact with IRS services and employees. Your honest opinions will help bring about this improvement.

Sincerely,

Dr. Peter Webb

Project Director

Pacific Consulting Group

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Do We Have Your Input Yet?

Recently, you received a questionnaire asking your opinions

about the service you received from the IRS in a recent

contact. If you have already completed and returned the

questionnaire, please accept our sincere thanks. If not, please

take a few minutes to complete it and return it today. We want

to be sure we have your opinions and suggestions.

If you did not receive the questionnaire, or it got misplaced,

please call us at 1-866-960-7897.

Dr. Peter Webb

Project Director

Pacific Consulting Group

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Dear

Recently you received a survey requesting your feedback about your experiences during a recent IRS audit of your excise tax return. So far, we have not received your completed survey. If you have not already completed the survey, please take a few minutes to fill in your responses. If another person was primarily responsible for dealing with the IRS on this matter, please direct the survey to that person and encourage him or her to respond.

As described in our previous communication, we are administering a nationwide survey among people who have had a recent IRS audit of an excise tax return, or review of your Form 637, Application for Registration (For Certain Excise Tax Activities). We want to know your opinions regarding the audit process and the service you received. Your responses are critical to the accuracy of our evaluation of the IRS’s service.

Pacific Consulting Group will hold your identity anonymous and will not provide any of your identifying information to the IRS. Your answers will be grouped with others, so that no individual reply can be traced back to a person or case number.

The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. We have included a postage-paid reply envelope for you to return your completed survey. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Survey Helpline at 1-866-960-7897.

To verify the authenticity of this survey, please visit IRS.gov and enter the search term “customer surveys.” The IRS Customer Satisfaction Survey page contains a list of valid and current IRS surveys and as of this issuance should provide a reference to SB/SE Excise Tax Examination.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation. The IRS is committed to improving its performance and service to the American public. A vital step in this process is to gather reliable information from those who have had contact with IRS employees and services. Your honest opinions will help bring about these changes.

Sincerely,

Dr. Peter Webb

Project Director

Pacific Consulting Group

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