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The Department of Treasury should live webcast all meetings
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Bring back TeleTax or a simplified form
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Public Feedback & Involvement, Tools & Strategies...
Better leverage open source software and open IT
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Implement Auto Filing
Amend the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for mailing pre-filled income tax returns to assist certain taxpayers who may be eligible for the earned income tax credit in completing their tax returns.
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Treasury Consumers Bill of Rights
Note: a hyperlinked version of this text is available at http://bit.ly/TCBoR
We, the taxpayers of the United States of America, have the right to be free from government waste and abuse. Inherent in that right is:
1. The right to prevent our taxes from being used to pay banks to refrain from lending commercial paper and to small businesses. Section 128 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization... more »
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Internal Revenue Service
Modernize the IRS to allow individuals who have grievances about how an IRS case is handled to make the process less paper-intensive and more due-process oriented. The overwhelming perception that the current system is a virtually "closed process" where extagent circumstances cannot be discussed prior to full compliance, a formal hearing delays handling enormously and case resolutions are inflexible.
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Transparency in spending
Allow full search of every check written by the Treasury, searchable by date, department, district, and authorizing law.
Obviously some expenditures would need to be aggregated for security or privacy reasons, but this very concept has already been implemented by banks and credit card companies for personal accounts.
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Incorporate voices and ideas of citizens into Treasury policy
Do you think it's important for Treasury to incorporate voices and ideas of citizens into Treasury policy? If so, you can vote for this idea or a leave a comment supporting this idea. And if you've got a better idea, submit your own!
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Improve timeliness and quality of data open to the public
Do you think it's important for Treasury to improve the timeliness and quality of the data that we make open to the public? If so, you can vote for this idea or a leave a comment supporting this idea. And if you've got a better idea, submit your own!
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Find innovative ways to present and visualize data for citizens
Do you think it's important for Treasury to find innovative ways to present and visualize data for citizens? If so, you can vote for this idea or a leave a comment supporting this idea. And if you've got a better idea, submit your own!
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Make Treasury's internal culture more agile and innovative
Do you think it's important for Treasury to make its internal culture more agile and innovative? If so, you can vote for this idea or a leave a comment supporting this idea. And if you've got a better idea, submit your own!
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Figure out what information is important for Treasury to publish
Do you think it's important for Treasury to figure out what information is most important to publish? If so, you can vote for this idea or a leave a comment supporting this idea. And if you've got a better idea, submit your own!
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Treasury should learn lessons from innovative organizations
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Hyperlinks
Why are hyperlinks not available to those who are sharing ideas? At least please make inline URLs clickable. Thank you!
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Business, travel and entainment expenses ( should be taxed )
I strongly suggest that all business travel and entertainment expenses should be taxed. This is for all businesses in the United States of America. If your company sends you to China, or any other place in the world.
Companies making the following: sales
Between $500,000.00 and $1 million,,,, 25% in taxes
Between $1 million and $10 million,,,, 50% in taxes
Between $10 million and $100 million,, 100% in taxes... more »