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IRS at a Glance
Our Business Operating Units
Just like any well-run business in the private sector, the IRS maintains specific operational divisions that help us effectively help our customers — the taxpaying American public. Each of these business units is responsible for managing their own employees, as well as their own processes, services and/or products. The Business Divisions include:
Wage & Investment Division (W&I)
W&I serves about 122 million taxpayers who file upwards of 94 million returns each year. Its key objectives are to provide high-quality taxpayer assistance, and to enable taxpayers to communicate and make transactions electronically to file their returns, make payments and receive assistance. W&I also partners with private organizations to assist such disadvantaged groups as elderly and low-income taxpayers.
Small Business/Self-Employed (SB/SE)
This division performs examinations and provides taxpayer education services for about 7 million small businesses — and upwards of 33 million self-employed and supplemental income taxpayers. Taxpayers served by SB/SE generally have higher incomes than other taxpayers, need to file twice as many tax forms and must rely more on paid tax preparers and the taxpayer education outreach activities of the IRS.
Large and Mid-Size Business (LMSB)
LMSB Revenue Agents conduct examinations and related investigations of corporations and businesses with revenue in excess of $10 million. Other Revenue Agent specialty occupations in this division include International Examiners dealing with global issues, Computer Audit Specialists who analyze complex computerized accounting systems, and Employment Tax Specialists who conduct examinations of complex employment tax returns.
Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE)
The TE/GE division serves three distinct groups of customers. Employee Plans (EP) examines the returns of qualified pension benefit plans to determine if they're in compliance. Exempt Organizations (EO) determines if not-for-profit organizations meet their tax-exempt status requirements. And, Government Entities (GE) ensures that these organizations meet their tax withholding and employment tax payment requirements.
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