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business and tax-exempt organization 

average, with an e-file rate of 

approximately 31 percent. 

The gap between the e-file rates for 

employment tax returns and all other 

returns allows a focus on employment 

tax returns to provide measurable 

growth in the overall rate for electronic 

filing. Potential approaches to increase 

electronic filing of employment tax 

returns are found in existing rules 

governing individual and business 

returns, and in recent successes for 

individual e-filing mandates. 

The following paragraph applies to all 

of the collections of information covered 

by this notice: An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless the collection of 

information displays a valid OMB 

control number. Books or records 

relating to a collection of information 

must be retained as long as their 

contents may become material in the 

administration of any internal revenue 

law. Generally, tax returns and tax 

return information are confidential, as 

required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(a) What do you, your business, or 

agency see as the main advantages and 

disadvantages to employers to e-file 

employment tax returns through a free 

online filing option offered through a 

public-private partnership; of the free 

online filing capability? 

(b) The circumstances under which 

employers currently mailing in 

employment tax returns might utilize a 

free online filing option offered through 

a public-private partnership; 

(c) The circumstances under which 

employers currently e-filing 

employment tax returns or their tax 

professionals might utilize a free online 

filing option offered through a publicprivate partnership; 

(d) The best way to market a free 

online filing option to employers and 

their tax professionals to increase the 

electronic filing of employment tax 

returns; 

(e) The circumstances under which 

companies that currently offer 

electronic filing of employment tax 

returns or those capable of developing a 

free online filing option for employment 

tax returns might participate in a publicprivate partnership to offer free online 

filing; 

(f) The support needed from IRS by 

companies participating in a publicprivate partnership to offer free online 

filing of employment tax returns; 

(g) The need to exclude certain 

employers from participation in a free 

online filing option for employment tax 

returns, such as based on an employer’s 

total payroll, total number of employees, 

total assets, or types of business; 

(h) Any and all products and services 

other than free online filing of 

employment tax returns that companies 

participating in a public-private 

partnership would want to offer (for 

profit or not for profit) to employers 

using the free online filing option; 

(i) Any uses of information that 

companies participating in a publicprivate partnership to offer free online 

filing of employment tax returns would 

need to require from employers in order 

to participate in a public-private 

partnership; 

(j) Any advantages from being 

identified as an IRS e-file Partner on the 

IRS Web site and any impact on these 

advantages from a public-private 

partnership to offer free online filing of 

employment tax returns; 

(k) Any advantages, disadvantages, or 

preferences for IRS creating its own free 

online filing portal for employment tax 

returns on IRS.gov without a publicprivate partnership; 

(l) The importance of implementing 

any of these proposals for employment 

tax reporting by 2016, 2017, or another 

date; 

(m) The burdens of requiring 

employers to file all employment tax 

returns electronically; 

(n) The burdens of requiring only paid 

preparers of employment tax returns to 

file the returns electronically; and 

(o) The need to except certain 

taxpayers or tax professionals from any 

e-file mandate for employment tax 

returns. 

Dated: February 27, 2015. 

Robert J. Bedoya, 

Director, e-File Services. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05104 Filed 3–4–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Advisory Committee on Disability 

Compensation; Notice of Meeting 

Cancellation 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

gives notice under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, that the 

meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Disability Compensation, previously 

scheduled to be held at the Department 

of Veterans Affairs, 1800 G Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20006, on March 9–11, 

2015, has been cancelled. 

For more information, please contact 

Ms. Nancy Copeland, Designated 

Federal Officer at (202) 461–9684 or via 

email at Nancy.Copeland@va.gov. 

Dated: March 3, 2015. 

Michael Shores, 

Regulation Policy and Management, Office 

of General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05213 Filed 3–4–15; 8:45 am] 

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