TIGTA Recommends More Employee Protection Training at IRS

IMPACT ON TAXPAYERS

The IRS has the task of protecting approximately 100,000 employees in more than 700 facilities located throughout the country. The safety of its employees has always been a top priority for the IRS, especially the safety of those employees who have direct contact with the public. The establishment of the Office of Employee Protection (OEP) and the Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer (PDT) and Caution Upon Contact (CAU) Programs was to improve the IRS's ability to identify taxpayers who represent a potential danger to IRS employees.

WHY TIGTA DID THE AUDIT

This audit was initiated because IRS employees can be exposed to many difficult, threatening, and even extremely dangerous situations. Prior attacks on IRS facilities demonstrate the dangers that IRS employees face in performing their jobs. The objectives of the audit were to determine whether the OEP is effectively administering the PDT and CAU Programs and whether it is proactive in identifying PDTs who might pose a threat to IRS employees.

WHAT TIGTA FOUND

Tests of the Employee Protection System records showed cases referred to the OEP were controlled and accurately entered into all IRS systems. Tests of 12 cases that underwent a five-year renewal review identified that established procedures were appropriately applied to each case.

However, some IRS employees who have direct contact with taxpayers do not have sufficient knowledge of the PDT and CAU Programs. Training courses and internal guidance for these employees were incomplete or inaccurate.

During interviews with employees, several incidents were described that had not been appropriately reported to the TIGTA Office of Investigations. The failure to report any threat or verbal abuse can put other IRS employees at risk if they later come into contact with the taxpayer face to face.

In addition, the OEP has not proactively ensured that the business units provide adequate training and guidance to these employees because of organizational misalignment and staffing issues. The OEP is not located within the office whose responsibilities include employee safety. The OEP should be realigned in the IRS's organizational structure to help better meet its mission and to elevate its visibility to help bolster employee awareness. It might also allow the OEP access to resources to engage in proactive agency-wide training and security involvement.

WHAT TIGTA RECOMMENDED

TIGTA recommended that the IRS establish processes to ensure that all front-line employees receive annual PDT and CAU criteria training and ensure that Internal Revenue Manual sections for front-line employees include current, complete, and accurate information on the PDT and CAU Programs. Finally, the IRS should determine where the OEP should be aligned in the organizational structure to enhance its mission of providing an agency-wide service.

The IRS agreed with the recommendations and plans to develop and distribute PDT and CAU training material. It plans to ask the operating divisions to review related Internal Revenue Manual sections that reference PDT and CAU procedures to ensure consistency with Internal Revenue Manual Section 25.4. It also plans to evaluate the organizational structure to determine the best alignment of the OEP.

Management's complete response to the draft report is included as Appendix IV.

Copies of this report are also being sent to the IRS managers affected by the report recommendations. If you have any questions, please contact me or Augusta R. Cook, Acting Assistant Inspector General for Audit (Returns Processing and Account Services).

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Because the majority of the IRS workforce has daily and ongoing interactions with the public, it is imperative that the IRS has programs that focus on employee protection. In 1984, the IRS Commissioner assigned the IRS Inspection Service¹ the responsibility of developing a program to improve the IRS's ability to identify taxpayers who represented a potential danger to IRS employees. The Inspection Service developed the Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer (PDT) Program and was assigned full responsibility for administering it.

For more than a decade, the PDT Program was the only means available to advise employees of possible dangerous situations. Its emphasis was on imminent danger or bodily harm and did not provide for less severe circumstances. In Calendar Year² 1999, the IRS Commissioner chartered a national task force with the sole objective of exploring and recommending options to enhance the safety of IRS employees. The task force led to the establishment of the Office of Employee Protection (OEP), which is now responsible for administering the PDT Program along with developing and administering the new Caution Upon Contact (CAU) Program.

Criteria for PDT and CAU designations

For a taxpayer to be considered potentially dangerous, the designation of PDT must be based on verifiable evidence, have a connection to tax administration, and meet the following criteria:

• Taxpayers who physically assault IRS employees or contractors or their immediate family.

• Taxpayers who attempt to intimidate or threaten IRS employees or contractors or members of their immediate family through specific threats of bodily harm, a show of weapons, the use of animals, or specific threatening behavior (such as acts of stalking).

• Persons who are active members of groups that advocate violence against IRS or other Federal employees, where advocating such violence could reasonably be understood to threaten the safety of IRS employees and impede the performance of IRS duties.

• Taxpayers who have committed the acts set forth in any of the preceding criteria, but whose acts have been directed against employees or contractors of other governmental agencies at Federal, State, county, or local levels.

• Taxpayers who are not classified as PDTs through application of the above criteria but who have demonstrated a clear propensity towards violence through acts of violent behavior within the five-year period immediately preceding the time of classification as potentially dangerous.

• Threat of physical harm that is less severe or immediate than necessary to satisfy PDT criteria.

• Suicide threat by the taxpayer.

• Filing or threatening to file a frivolous lien or a frivolous criminal or civil action against an IRS employee or contractor or their immediate family.

Figure 1 shows the number of PDT and CAU cases added to the Employee Protection System (EPS) during Calendar Years 2008 through 2012. The EPS is a database used to catalog information about PDT and CAU taxpayer cases. The information includes Personally Identifiable Information as well as information (description of the incident) describing why the taxpayer is considered dangerous. The database also includes information on the IRS employee who reported the incident and contains audit trail information, which can be used to identify database activity by user identification.

                       Figure 1: PDT and CAU Cases Added

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and OEP coordination

With the establishment of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the administration and maintenance of the PDT database was transferred to the OEP in February 2000. However, the TIGTA was assigned the investigative responsibilities of the former Inspection Service, and all IRS employees are required to report incidents involving threats and assaults to the TIGTA Office of Investigations.

One of many responsibilities of the Office of Investigations is to protect the IRS and related entities against attempts to corrupt or threaten their employees. The Office of Investigations is responsible for investigating attempts by individuals to corrupt or unlawfully interfere with the administration of the Federal tax system through such activities as bribery, threats, assaults, or other unlawful actions that may impact IRS personnel and impede Federal tax administration. It investigates actions by individuals that may affect the safety of IRS employees.

To ensure that IRS employees are aware of their responsibilities and the role the TIGTA plays in their work lives, the TIGTA provides briefings on assaults, threats, bribery, integrity, and other security-related topics to IRS employees. TIGTA special agents conducted 294 presentations in Fiscal Year³ 2009 and more than 369 in Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011.

This review was performed in the Small Business/Self-Employed and Wage and Investment Divisions at the OEP in Detroit, Michigan, and the Accounts Management, Field Assistance, Examination, and Collection function offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; Lees Summit, Missouri; and Dallas, Texas, during the period May through September 2012. We conducted this performance audit in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. Detailed information on our audit objectives, scope, and methodology is presented in Appendix I. Major contributors to the report are listed in Appendix II.

The OEP has sufficient controls to ensure that cases referred to the PDT and CAU Programs are appropriately processed and controlled. A review of PDT and CAU cases identified that determinations were appropriate and the PDT and CAU designations were appropriately applied. Controls ensure that taxpayer accounts are timely updated with the appropriate indicators. Additionally, five-year reviews were timely and criteria were appropriately applied to all cases we reviewed.

EPS records were accurate and complete

Tests of the EPS records showed cases referred to the OEP were controlled and accurately entered into all IRS systems. Referrals to the OEP come from either the TIGTA Office of Investigations or through employee submission of Form 13090, Caution Indicator Referral Report.

• PDT Referrals: Employees are to first contact the TIGTA Office of Investigations when an incident occurs that meets PDT criteria. If there is sufficient evidence to initiate a case for an investigation, the TIGTA will forward the initial information to the OEP. The OEP will place a pending PDT on the taxpayer's account in the EPS upon receipt of the information. Once the investigation is complete, the OEP will make the determination as to whether the taxpayer should be designated as a PDT or CAU and, if necessary, update the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS).⁴

• CAU Referrals: Employees are to submit Forms 13090 directly to the OEP. They may send the completed Form 13090 by fax, mail, or e-mail through secure messaging. The OEP reviews the information and determines whether the referral meets the CAU criteria. Once the determination has been made, the OEP staff will update the IDRS and the EPS. If the referral meets PDT criteria instead, the OEP will forward the case to the TIGTA to conduct an investigation.

We performed tests of six statistically valid samples from selected EPS records with active and pending cases, IMF Entity Table records with PDT or CAU indicators, and TIGTA Performance and Results Information System (PARIS) records.⁶ Errors included records erroneously transmitted, incorrect addresses or Social Security Numbers, and misspellings. The error rates from the six samples were not statistically significant. None of the errors affected employee protection and, when advised, the OEP promptly corrected all errors.

Tests of 80 active PDT and CAU records judgmentally selected from the PARIS, IMF Entity Table records, and EPS records found that indicators were appropriately placed on or removed from IDRS accounts for all 80 records. Of the 80 records, four were appropriately changed from PDT to CAU indicators and three were removed from the IDRS as a result of OEP determinations.

PDT and CAU indicators were appropriately applied

A judgmental sample of 15 cases⁷ showed that the OEP appropriately applied the PDT and CAU criteria for each case.

• Five cases had been appropriately determined to be PDT cases.

• Eight cases had been appropriately determined to be CAU cases.

• Two cases had been appropriately determined not to meet the PDT or CAU criteria.

Tests of 12 cases⁸ that underwent a five-year review identified established procedures were appropriately applied to each case. For 10 of the 12 cases, there was current tax activity at the time of the review and the indicators were extended for another five years. Two cases did not meet the five-year renewal criteria, and the indicators were appropriately removed from the taxpayer's accounts.

The OEP has developed the Advanced Five-Year Report that is provided to the TIGTA Office of Investigations to allow special agents to conduct a proactive follow-up investigation on taxpayers designated as PDTs three months prior to the expiration of the designation. The PDT five-year renewal criteria are:

• An additional PDT referral was made during the five-year period under review.

• An IRS employee or contractor was physically assaulted.

• An arrest was made by the TIGTA or another law enforcement agency for a threat to, or an assault on, an IRS employee or contractor during the five-year period under review.

• The taxpayer's account shows current IRS activity (e.g., audit or balance due) at the time of the review.

If any of the noted situations exist at the time of the review, the taxpayer's PDT or CAU designation will remain on the account for an additional five years. The five-year renewal criteria are applied each time a designation comes up for review, regardless of how long a taxpayer has been in either of the programs.

Training and Guidance on the Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer and Caution Upon Contact Programs Need Improvement

Our review identified that some IRS employees who have direct contact with taxpayers do not have sufficient knowledge of the PDT and CAU Programs. Threatening incidents by taxpayers are not always reported. TIGTA interviews with employees identified several incidents that were not reported to the TIGTA or the OEP because the employees:

• Were on the telephone with the taxpayer and did not believe the threat was imminent.

• Believed they had calmed the taxpayer.

• Were not intimidated by the threatening behavior.

• Empathized with the taxpayers and were able to attend to the taxpayer's tax needs.

• Did not recognize the threat.

Training courses and internal guidance for these employees were incomplete or inaccurate. In addition, the OEP has not proactively ensured that the business units provide adequate training and guidance to these employees because of organizational alignment and staffing issues. Therefore, the IRS cannot be certain that all incidents of taxpayers who may pose a danger to IRS employees are reported. The Government Accountability Office's Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government⁹ states:

Not all employees have sufficient knowledge of the PDT and CAU Programs

Interviews with 34 IRS employees¹⁰ who have direct contact with taxpayers through face-to-face meetings, telephone calls, or written correspondence found that most do not have sufficient knowledge of PDT and CAU criteria. In addition, the employees did not have a good understanding of the PDT and CAU reporting processes or the role of the OEP in providing employee safety.

Thirty (88 percent) of the 34 IRS employees interviewed had heard of the PDT designation and knew that a PDT taxpayer is an individual who either assaulted an IRS employee or potentially poses a danger to an IRS employee. However, employees did not have a sufficient understanding of all the criteria.

When asked whether they had heard of the CAU designation, only 10 (29 percent) of the 34 employees stated that they had. Only seven (21 percent) of the 34 employees could provide an adequate description of the difference between a taxpayer designated as a PDT or CAU.

Figure 2 provides the results of our interviews with 34 IRS employees.

                 Figure 2: Results of TIGTA Interviews With IRS

                       Figure 3: Results OEP Reader Polls

Training courses do not include sufficient information about the PDT and CAU Programs

An analysis of seven student training guides and three presentations used to train IRS employees on the PDT and CAU Programs showed they were not all up to date and did not always provide IRS employees with the necessary information on the programs and the OEP. Of the 10 guides and presentations provided by the IRS:

• Nine (90 percent) did not include PDT criteria.

• Six (60 percent) had outdated material.

• Seven (70 percent) did not include the CAU Program or its criteria.

• Five (50 percent) had no material on the OEP.

• Two (20 percent) stated IRS Criminal Investigation should be contacted for armed escort. However, effective May 2, 2011, the TIGTA assumed the responsibilities related to all armed escorts.

Internal guidance does not include sufficient PDT and CAU Program information

A review of a judgmental sample of 12 Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) sections used by front-line employees (employees who deal directly with taxpayers), showed eight (67 percent) did not provide a description of the PDT Program, 11 (92 percent) did not list the PDT criteria, nine (75 percent) did not provide a description of the CAU Program, and 12 (100 percent) did not list the CAU criteria. In addition:

• One section incorrectly abbreviated Caution Upon Contact as "EAU" instead of "CAU."

• Two sections had incorrect reporting information for suicide threats. The two sections advised employees to report suicide threats to the TIGTA, rather than to the OEP. The IRS has classified suicide threats as CAU; therefore, IRS employees are to report them directly to the OEP.

• Two sections incorrectly instruct employees to contact IRS Criminal Investigation for armed escort even though the TIGTA has assumed responsibility for armed escorts.

              Figure 4: Results of the TIGTA's Review of the IRM¹²

The OEP has developed outreach and training resources, but has not ensured that all IRS business units provide sufficient training and guidance

The PDT and CAU Programs are dependent on an IRS employee's ability to recognize behavior that would require a PDT or CAU designation and properly report such incidents. To help educate IRS employees of the OEP and the PDT and CAU Programs, the OEP has developed training and security awareness guides, documents, and newsletters. Some of the training media, internal guidance, and outreach include:

• OEP website.

• Document 12963 (1-2012) Catalog Number 57529Q, A Guide to the Office of Employee Protection Programs.

• OEP Quarterly Newsletters.

• Document 12855 (2-2012) Catalog Number 55374X, Spotlight on Safety.

• IRM 25.4, Employee Protection.

Finally, the OEP assists IRS executives in updating the IRM and preparing PDT and CAU Program presentations. However, the OEP has not established a process to periodically review training or guidance provided by the IRS's various offices and functions to ensure that it is complete and accurate. OEP officials stated that resource limitations and organizational placement have prevented them from doing this. The OEP has experienced difficulty in obtaining resources for administering the PDT and CAU Programs. The OEP is located within the Small Business/Self-Employed Division, whose priorities are focused more on taxpayer compliance activities. The OEP believes that an additional full-time equivalent¹⁵ would allow it to establish the process and controls needed to ensure that employee guidance and training is complete, accurate, and current.

An agency's organizational structure should clearly define key areas of authority and responsibility and establish appropriate lines of reporting.¹⁶ Currently, the OEP is placed within a specific business division, yet it has agency-wide responsibility. Realigning the OEP so that it is not within the Small Business/Self-Employed Division may help to better meet its agency-wide mission of administering programs that track potentially dangerous taxpayers and those taxpayers who should be approached with caution. In addition, realigning the OEP would elevate its visibility to help bolster employee awareness across multiple business divisions. It might also allow the OEP access to resources to engage in proactive agency-wide training and security involvement.

Recommendations

The Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement should:

Recommendation 1: Establish processes to ensure that all direct contact employees receive annual PDT and CAU criteria training.

² The 12-consecutive-month period ending on December 31.

³ A 12-consecutive-month period ending on the last day of any month, except December. The Federal Government's fiscal year begins on October 1 and ends on September 30.

⁴ IRS computer system capable of retrieving or updating stored information. It works in conjunction with a taxpayer's account records.

⁵ The IRS database that maintains transactions or records of individual tax accounts.

⁶ The PARIS is a management information system that provides the TIGTA the ability to manage and account for the thousands of complaints received, investigations initiated, and leads developed from Local Investigative Initiatives and National Investigative Initiatives.

⁷ A judgmental sample was selected from paper files. Ten cases were judgmentally selected from the 6,649 active PDT and CAU cases, and five cases were judgmentally selected from the 662 pending PDT cases. A judgmental sample is a nonstatistical sample, the results of which cannot be used to project to the population.

⁸ Twelve cases were judgmentally selected from 12 Five-Year Renewal reports that listed a total of 26 cases.

⁹ General Accounting Office, GAO/AIMD-00-21.3.1, Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (Nov. 1999). In July 2004, the General Accounting Office became the Government Accountability Office.

¹⁰ The 34 employees were judgmentally selected.

¹¹ The IRS provides polls for its employees on its intranet website.

¹² Due to rounding, the numbers may not always equal 100 percent.

¹³ The target audience for IRM 25.4, Special Topics, Employee Protection, is all business operating and functional divisions with employees whose duties require them to have contact with taxpayers.

¹⁴ The target audience for IRM 5.1.3, Field Collecting Procedures, Safety, Security, and Control, is revenue officers in the Small Business/Self-Employed Division Collection function.

¹⁵ A measure of labor hours in which one full-time equivalent is equal to eight hours multiplied by the number of compensable days in a particular fiscal year. For Fiscal Year 2012, one full-time equivalent is equal to 2,080 staff hours.

¹⁶ General Accounting Office, GAO/AIMD-00-21.3.1, Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (Nov. 1999).

I. Evaluated the IRS's guidelines and regulations for the OEP's PDT and CAU Programs and determined whether they provide adequate guidance to effectively administer those Programs.

Internal controls relate to management's plans, methods, and procedures used to meet their mission, goals, and objectives. Internal controls include the processes and procedures for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling program operations. They include the systems for measuring, reporting, and monitoring program performance. We determined the following internal controls were relevant to our audit objective: the OEP's desk guides and flowcharts, the PDT and CAU Programs' IRMs, and practices for ensuring the accuracy of the EPS. We evaluated these controls by interviewing management and employees, reviewing the IRM, visiting sites, reviewing EPS reports, and analyzing information on the EPS.

Evaluating the Reliability of Computer-Processed Data

To assess the reliability of the EPS data and the electronic exchange of data between the TIGTA Office of Investigations and the OEP, we interviewed TIGTA Office of Investigations personnel and OEP specialists, conducted a walk-through of the EPS, reviewed the EPS User Guide, and compared 10 records from the TIGTA Office of Investigations PARIS report to the actual EPS database while visiting the OEP in Detroit, Michigan. We verified the PARIS information against the EPS data and were able to determine that controls were in place and appropriate for the exchange of data between the two systems. The 10 records reviewed were at one time present in the EPS and are categorized as PDT, CAU, Pending, or Archived.

We relied on the TIGTA Information Technology Data Center Warehouse's assessment of the IMF Entity Table segment cycle 201221. The Data Center Warehouse personnel take several steps to ensure that IMF data are accurate. During the testing and post-processing, the data are analyzed to verify the data values were correctly extracted from the original file, the values look reasonable, money amounts have/do not have the correct decimal places, etc. This is done through printing out a subset of output records and physically reviewing the records, running frequency analyses on applicable fields showing all values existing for that field, and using IRS utilities/IDRS validation to display actual account data for a comparison between the data on the Data Central Warehouse file and what exists on IRS systems.

² The PARIS is a management information system that provides the TIGTA the ability to manage and account for the thousands of complaints received, investigations initiated, and leads developed from Local Investigative Initiatives and National Investigative Initiatives.

³ The IMF is the IRS database that maintains transactions or records of individual tax accounts.

⁴ IRS computer system capable of retrieving or updating stored information. It works in conjunction with a taxpayer's account records.

⁵ Judgmental sample groupings consist of 20 PARIS records, 20 IMF Entity Table records with PDT indicators, 20 IMF Entity Table records with CAU indicators, and 20 EPS records.

Paula W. Johnson, Acting Director

Jean Bell, Acting Audit Manager

Tracy Harper, Lead Auditor

Jackie Forbus, Senior Auditor

Jerome Antoine, Auditor

Jeremy Berry, Auditor

Office of the Commissioner -- Attn: Chief of Staff C

Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support OS

Commissioner, Small Business/Self-Employed Division SE:S

Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division SE:W

Chief, Office of Employee Protection, Small Business/Self-Employed Division SE:S:CS:P&G

Director, Accounts Management, Wage and Investment Division SE:W:CAS:AM

Director, Enterprise Collection Planning and Governance, Small Business/Self-Employed Division SE:S:CS:P&G

Director, Field Assistance, Wage and Investment Division SE:W:CAR:FA

Chief Counsel CC

National Taxpayer Advocate TA

Director, Office of Legislative Affairs CL:LA

Director, Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis RAS:O

Office of Internal Control OS:CFO:CPIC:IC

Audit Liaisons:

Chief, Program Evaluation and Improvement, Wage and Investment Division SE:W:S:PEI

Communication and Stakeholders Outreach, Small Business/Self-Employed Division SE:S:CSO:SL:HQ

We agree with your three recommendations, and we appreciate your acknowledgement that the Office of Employee Protection (OEP) has sufficient controls to ensure that cases referred to the Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer (PDT) and Caution Upon Contact (CAU) programs are appropriately processed and controlled.

Attached is a detailed response outlining our corrective actions to address your recommendations.

If you have any questions please contact me, or a member of your staff may contact Michael Julianelle, Director, Enterprise Collection Strategy at (202)622-3480.

Attachment

The Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement should establish processes to ensure all direct contact employees receive annual PDT and CAU criteria training.

CORRECTIVE ACTION:

We will develop and distribute PDT and CAU training material to all Operating Divisions for required sharing with their public contact employees through appropriate means, e.g. unit meetings, training meetings, etc.

IMPLEMENTATION DATE:

June 15, 2014

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL:

Chief, Office of Employee Protection, Enterprise Collection Strategy, Small Business/Self-Employed Division (SB/SE)

CORRECTIVE ACTION MONITORING PLAN:

IRS will monitor this corrective action as part of our internal management system of controls.

RECOMMENDATION 2:

The Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement should ensure the IRM sections for all front-line employees include current, complete, and accurate information on the PDT and CAU Programs and establish processes to periodically ensure the IRM sections conform to the OEP's guidelines and procedures.

CORRECTIVE ACTION:

We will issue a memorandum to all Operating Divisions on the results of this audit and ask that they review their related IRMs that reference PDT and CAU procedures to ensure consistency with IRM 25.4. If they identify inconsistencies, we will ask that they furnish appropriate updated guidance. We will also share the results of the specific TIGTA IRM reviews referenced in the draft report with the appropriate offices for action.

IMPLEMENTATION DATE:

June 15, 2014

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL:

Chief, Office of Employee Protection, Enterprise Collection Strategy, Small Business/Self-Employed Division (SB/SE)

CORRECTIVE ACTION MONITORING PLAN:

IRS will monitor this corrective action as part of our internal management system of controls.

RECOMMENDATION 3:

The Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement should determine where the OEP would be better aligned in the organizational structure to enhance its mission of providing an agency-wide service, provide the resources needed to promote more proactive employee protection activities, and position it to allow agency-wide visibility to enhance employee awareness.

CORRECTIVE ACTION:

We will evaluate the organizational structure to determine the best alignment for the OEP office, and prepare a business case with recommendations for final executive approval.

IMPLEMENTATION DATE:

June 15, 2013

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL:

Director, Enterprise Collection Strategy, Small Business/Self-Employed Division (SB/SE)

CORRECTIVE ACTION MONITORING PLAN:

IRS will monitor this corrective action as part of our internal management system of controls.