PRESS RELEASE

Colorado Department of Labor and Employment • 633 Seventeenth Street, Suite 1200, Denver, CO 80202 •

(303) 318-8004 • Fax: (303) 318-8070

For Immediate Release

Date:                        January 3, 2008

Contact:                   Office of Government, Policy and Public Relations

Phone:                     (303) 318-8004

Fax: (303) 318-8070

 Web: www.coworkforce.com

COLORADO MAN SELECTED BY TREASURY DEPARTMENT
TO SERVE ON TAXPAYER ADVOCACY PANEL

(DENVER) – Dean Conder, an employee of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, has been selected by the United States Treasury Department to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), a federal advisory board whose mission is to listen to taxpayers, identify their issues, and make recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service for improving service and customer satisfaction.

He will join almost one hundred volunteers who were selected from across the nation to serve as panel members.  “I am honored to serve on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel,” he says. “This is an outstanding organization that provides valuable services to the IRS as well as taxpayers across the country.”  Conder is the only Panel member from Colorado and he will represent Colorado taxpayers as well as work on national issues.

TAP is completely independent of the IRS.  Thus, issues and ideas brought to its attention are reviewed thoroughly by an unbiased group.  Its membership devotes 300 to 500 hours each year to the panel.  Members work with IRS executives on priority topics and also serve as a conduit for grassroots issues between the public and the IRS.

Panel members include teachers, tax attorneys, accountants, law enforcement officers, professors, retired military and small business owners.  Conder is the only TAP appointee who has been named to replace a TAP member who also works for the same governmental entity or private corporation.  He replaces Maryann Motza, the State Social Security Administrator with the Department of Labor and Employment.

On her departure, she was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award from the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.  This award is only given to citizen volunteers who have given numerous hours of their time to making a difference in this Country.

Taxpayers can contact Mr. Conder and the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel by calling 1-888-912-1227 or via the Internet at www.improveirs.org.  Taxpayers can also write to the Panel at: Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, 915 Second Ave. M/S W-406, Seattle, WA 98174.

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