Time: Thu Feb 06 16:47:37 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA12053; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 12:23:52 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:39:40 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: OMB control numbers Cc: butchaz@juno.com (Alfred R Martin) Dear Clients, My colleague Alfred R. Martin here explains briefly the meaning of OMB control numbers, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, a federal law which was originally intended to have specific application to the "Internal Revenue Service" [sic]. /s/ Paul Mitchell >To: pmitch@primenet.com >Subject: OMB >From: butchaz@juno.com (Alfred R Martin) >Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 11:47:56 EST > > In 1980, Congress passed the "Paper Reduction Act", the purpose of >which is to reduce the onerous request for information and the necessity >for information and the necessity for keeping records piled on our people >by federal agencies and to reign in the government's unnecessary spending >of money. > > The Act prevents any department from issuing demands for information >or record keeping without first clearing such request through the OMB >which is now mandated to evaluate such request and to determine which >demands are necessary or superfluous. When approval is given for any such >request, an OMB NUMBER is assigned for it, which must be printed in the >upper right-hand corner of the Form making such request or demand. The >Law is quite clear and declares in part: > > "Notwithstanding any other provision of Law, no person shall be > subject to any penalty for failing to provide information to any > agency if the information collection request involved was made > after December 31, 1981, and does not display the current > control number assigned by the director, or fails to state that > such request is not subject to this chapter. Information >collection > request which do not display a current control number, or, if >not > indicated why not, are to be considered BOOTLEG REQUEST > and may be ignored by the public." > > The OMB requirement and restrictions apply to the regulations as well >as to the instruction manuals associated with request for information or >the keeping of records. In other words, by law, not only must each form >presented to the public bear an OMB number, but that number must also be >assigned to the corresponding regulation that authorizes the government >to demand information from you. > > Take a look at the "Individual Income Tax Form" that the IRS sends >each year. In the upper right-hand corner, you will find: OMB number >1545-0074. > Title 26, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 602 discloses that the >Form bearing OMB number 1545-0074 is to be used for filing of tax returns >for U.S. Citizens in the POSSESSIONS. > > ==================================================================== [Text is usually formatted in Courier 11 non-proportional spacing @] [65-characters per line; .DOCs by MS-WORD for MS-DOS, Version 5.0B.] Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S., email address: pmitch@primenet.com Web site for the Supreme Law Firm is URL: http://www.supremelaw.com Ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776, Tucson, Arizona state [We win] We can decode all your byte streams, spaghetti code notwithstanding. Coming soon: "Manifesto for a Republic" by John E. Trumane ie JetMan ====================================================================
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