IRS Research Conference 2002 IRS Research Conference Washington, D.C. This section contains papers written by IRS employees and others for the 2002 IRS Research Conference. The views expressed in these papers are those of the authors and are not necessarily the official positions of the Internal Revenue Service. Citations are included in the papers. For more information about a paper, please send us an email message. All research papers are available as PDF files. A free Adobe Acrobat reader is available for download, if needed. Data availability, access and security issues Challenges Associated with Collecting Compliance Data PDF Karin Cano and Robert Brown, IRS National Research Program Office, July 2002 IRS Contractors to Conduct Research and Surveys PDF Julia Reasoner, IRS Office of Disclosure Regarding Research, July 2002 The Release of IRS Data: Challenges and New Approaches PDF Nick Greenia, Statistics of Income, IRS, July 2002 Use of Contractors in Tax Administration: Issues to Consider PDF Patricia H. McGuire, Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis, IRS, July 2002 Earned Income Tax Credit Compliance Estimates for Earned Income Tax Credit Claimed on 1999 Returns PDF IRS, July 2002 Dependent Data Base and Earned Income Tax Credit PDF Wendy Handin and Scott Mendelson, IRS Wage and Investment Division, July 2002 Development of an Effective EITC Outreach Strategy PDF Jose Lopez, IRS Wage and Investment Division, July 2002 IRS workload and resource allocation Projecting Tax Return Filings by Major Workload Categories PDF Russell Geiman, IRS National Headquarters Office of Research, July 2002 Measuring compliance and the tax gap Compliance Measurement and Workload Selection with Operational Audit Data PDF Brian Erard, B. Erard and Associates, July 2002 Trends in Book-Tax Income and Balance Sheet Differences PDF Lillian Mills and Kaye Newberry, University of Arizona; and William B. Trautman, IRS Large and Mid-Sized Business Division, August 2002 Return selection strategies Partnership Selection System: Data Mining Proof-of-Concept PDF Don McPartland, IRS Large and Mid-Sized Business Division, Research; and Richard Solari, Oracle Corporation, July 2002 Predictors of Unreported Income: Test of Unreported Income (UI) DIF Scores PDF Dennis Cyr, Thomas Eckhardt, Lou Ann Sandoval, and Marvin Halldorson, IRS, January 2003 Risk Based Reporting Compliance PDF Richard Fratanduono, IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Division, Research; and John Kam, IRS National Headquarters Office of Research, August 2002 Testing the UI-DIF Formulas PDF Lance Asner, IRS National Headquarters Office of Research, July 2002. Large File—27.5 Megabytes Strategies to reduce taxpayer burden and improve customer service and satisfaction Design and Development of the Wage and Investment Compliance Burden Model PDF Michael Stavrianos and Arnold Greenland, PwC Consulting. August 2002. Large File—15.8 Megabytes Walk-in Taxpayer Demographic and Attitudinal Profile, Project 2.02 PDF Ralph Collinson and Jon Games, IRS Wage and Investment Division, Research, July 2002 Links to other conferences: IRS Research Conference
