Burden estimates

From: McLane Lisa A
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:05 PM
To: Durbala R Joseph
Subject: FW: IRS Headlines...and More (10-22-2007)

Joe, listed below is a revised number on the Form 8554. I would say use 48,000 for the new estimate. Please send me the revised numbers when they are ready.

 

Thanks so much for your help.

 

Lisa McLane

Project Manager

Office of Professional Responsibility

1111 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington DC (Room 7230) 

Work phone...202-622-0657

Cell phone.....571-212-8043

 

From: Frederick Diane
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:45 PM
To: McLane Lisa A
Subject: RE: IRS Headlines...and More (10-22-2007)

Lisa,

 Form 23 volumes are good.  This year receipts totaled roughly 2,200, so I would keep it at 2,400 because each years receipts fluctuate.

 Form 8554’s, you may want to change to reflect 48,453 (current database totals of EA’s (active and inactive who can renew).

Hope this is helpful.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Diane M. Frederick

Chief, Office of Practitioner Enrollment

SE:OPR:OPE

Tele:  (313) 234-1290

Fax:  (313) 234-1293

 

From: McLane Lisa A
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:54 AM
To: Frederick Diane
Subject: FW: IRS Headlines...and More (10-22-2007)

Diane, are the volumes in this e-mail accurate? If not, can you send me the correct volumes that they should use for the burden reduction calculations?

 

Thanks,

 

Lisa McLane

Project Manager

Office of Professional Responsibility

1111 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington DC (Room 7230) 

Work phone...202-622-0657

Cell phone.....571-212-8043

 

 

From: Durbala R Joseph
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:21 PM
To: McLane Lisa A
Cc: Kirkland Glenn P
Subject: RE: IRS Headlines...and More (10-22-2007)

We can update the records.  Are we to assume that the estimated number of responses to these forms will stay the same?  We currently show 2,400 for Form 23 and 39,500 for Form 8554.  Based on you new times we could show the following savings:

 

Form 23:  Previous- 2,400 hours.  New- 600 hours (2400 responses X .25 (1/4 hour)).  Savings:  1800 hours.

Form 8554: Previous- 47,400 hours.  New- 19750 hours (39,500 responses X .5 (1/2 hour)).  Savings: 27,650 hours. 

 

The only thing we would need is the updated forms with a summary of the changes to reflect the new burden computations.  We would need something to justify what we have done to lower this burden (i.e., change to forms, regulations change, filing requirement changes, ...). 

 

Does this make sense?  Please let me know if you have any additional questions,  

R. Joseph Durbala
Tax Analyst, Special Products Section 
Tax Forms & Publications Division
SE:W:CAR:MP:T:T:SP
(202) 622-3634
Employee No. 50-12288

 

From: McLane Lisa A
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:07 AM
To: Durbala R Joseph; Kirkland Glenn P
Subject: RE: IRS Headlines...and More (10-22-2007)

The new estimates (15 minutes for Form 23 and 30 minutes for Form 8554) are included in the new Privacy Act language of both of the forms. Please let me know if you can do something with this. I expect the savings to be minor.

 

Thanks, 

 

Lisa McLane

Project Manager

Office of Professional Responsibility

1111 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington DC (Room 7230) 

Work phone...202-622-0657

Cell phone.....571-212-8043