No citizen likes to pay lots of taxes and if you'll recall some of the citizens in the United States before it was formed were quite upset with the king and his taxation. In fact if you'll recall in Boston Harbor some dressed as Indians threw some tea in the water because they were slightly upset. Ever since this time American citizens through the generations have not trusted tax agencies.
There are many groups out in our society who try to get people to stop paying taxes in order to make a statement about government and taxation. Public relations for taxation agencies is therefore very important to help educate the consumer, customer and citizen of what their money is going for and why they are collecting it. Most people do not trust the Internal Revenue Service and get rather irate by audits.
A good public relations program and community goodwill effort from a taxation agency can alleviate much of the stress and anger from taxpayers. Taxation agencies should be careful to have open communication lines with all major media outlets and promote how they are doing, what they're doing and why it is so vitally important to our society and civilization.
This of course is not an easy proposition since no one likes to pay taxes and because our taxes keep going up and nothing seems to work right. The taxation agencies need to make sure that the people understand that they are the collection arm and if there is a problem that should be taken up with the fine folks in government and the elected representatives. Please consider all this in 2006.
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