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After Pete McIntyre had been found dead in the office, the firm gave us all a day off.
'This was an appalling event,' our CEO wrote in his email. 'We want you to honour Pete with this personal day. Spend it well. Share it with your loved ones. But most importantly, do something you wouldn't normally do. We, in Management, will take some time to reflect and review procedures.'
I didn't always agree with The Boss, but on this he was right. It was an appalling event. Although Pete had died Monday lunchtime, nobody had noticed until late Tuesday morning when his phone kept ringing even though Pete was sitting right in front of it.
Twenty-two hours, was the estimate whispered around the office. Somebody had heard the paramedics mention it as they carried Pete into the lift on a stretcher while we stood up in our cubicles, incredulous co-workers, silently asking ourselves: How many times?
Well, Pete's booth was six rows from mine, between the printer room and the exit. Counting loo breaks and trips to the canteen, I reckoned I was guilty of having passed him approximately twenty times since his soul had departed this world. It felt uncomfortable, called for a gesture of sorts, and I welcomed the extra day off, particularly the nudge to do something I wouldn't normally do. It also settled my long-held suspicion that all was not well with the overnight cleaning staff's attention to detail. Even before last night's colossal oversight, the signs had been plentiful: A layer of solid grease at the back of my screen, a dried coffee stain behind my lamp, dust gathering on the rows of miniature toiletries lining my desk.
I was about to unscrew the lid on a rhubarb-pink shower gel when Helen opposite knocked on the partition.
'How are you doing in there?' she whispered. 'You looked upset before.'
I popped my head deep into the cubicle to catch her eye through the gap in the corner. Having forgotten that I was wearing my reading glasses, I was taken aback when Helen's nose appeared in close-up, revealing pores and tiny black hairs on the tip. 'I just wondered about the paramedics,' I said, withdrawing a couple of inches. 'I mean, what must they be thinking of us?'
'I wouldn't worry about that,' she said. 'There's nothing people in those sorts of jobs haven't seen before.'
An hour later, #deadmanworking was trending on Twitter. By lunchtime, reporters had gathered in front of the fountain outside our building and by three o'clock, Corporate Communications had stopped answering their phones. Although somebody in HR helpfully let slip that the deceased (59) enjoyed cigarettes and hard liquor and that, when asked his family's medical history, he had simply written: 'We don't have lupus', there was broad agreement that such information missed the point.
Fearing a public relations scandal, Management decided to address the matter head on, and in the evening, our line manager, Caroline, now with an extra layer of Chanel Rouge Noir, faced the London News in front of the trickling fountain.
'First, I would like to say that our thoughts and prayers are with Peter and his family and friends,' she told the young male reporter. 'Everyone in our company is deeply affected by this tragedy.' She continued without a blink: 'Peter lived alone so nobody would have missed him in the evening, unless he'd had an engagement and-'
'That's hardly the story here,' said the reporter. 'According to the press release, Mr McIntyre died in the office yesterday without anybody realising-'
'I was getting to that,' said Caroline. 'As I understand it, the colleagues Peter used to lunch with were on a staff development course this Monday. Had they been in the office, they would have found out that Peter was deceased when they stopped by his cubicle to pick him up on their way to the canteen.'
'But what about the other staff?' The reporter raised his voice. 'We're told that over two hundred people work on the floor, right next to Mr McIntyre.'
'Most of our employees work out of individual cubicles,' said Caroline. 'We find this provides much desired privacy although, in this case, it was obviously a factor in the tragedy remaining undiscovered. Now, as I understand it, Peter was finalising his input for the monthly report at the time of his… when he passed on. Colleagues are likely to have noticed the spreadsheets on his computer and one plausible explanation is that Peter's position – I understand that his head was leaning against the cubicle wall – caused colleagues to assume he was simply resting.'
As soon as Caroline had disappeared off screen, my Dad called. 'Poor fellow,' he said. 'And nobody waiting for him at home… It's not right so many people living alone these days.'
'I know… I wouldn't dream of telling you what to do, but Michael wasn't a bad chap.'
'Dad,' I said.
Wednesday morning, the communications team arrived with dark circles under their eyes. The world still had questions: Did the firm need to rethink its values? Were there fundamental issues to be confronted, such as the impersonal dynamics of large-scale offices? Was it true, as research had shown, that 85% of global white-collar workers were 'actively disengaged'?
For the first time in my twenty years with the firm, I felt no jealousy towards the PRs. My own role as Travel Co-ordinator was a support function with limited scope for promotion, but no reporter was ever going to ask me if I believed it literally was possible to die from boredom, and my job had many other perks such as regular hours, airline discounts, and, once a year, a Eurostar holiday to Paris or Bruges.
Most days, however, it was the records of other people's travels that passed through my hands: sustenance bills, hotel reservations and enough air miles to send numerous executive families to Barbados and back every January. I knew the room lay-outs of the world's best hotels and the menus of the most famous restaurants, and over the years, the space around my cubicle had become a travel information hub. 'How was Singapore, mate?' Somebody would ask above my head, waiting to hand me a pile of stapled receipts. 'Raffles is not what it used to be,' the colleague would reply. 'Judith, love, please tell everyone staying at The Waldorf to ask for the Towers', or 'The other half and I took the weekend to explore Malibu. We're thinking of Big Sur next year.'
They were thoughtful colleagues, always remembering that I collected hotel toiletries, and with time I had built up a large collection of miniature shampoos, shower gels and clothing care products. (My favourites were the Neom bath salt sachets and the Etro shoe polish kit that came in tiny, striped boxes). But in the days following Pete's death, these treasures failed to give me the usual thrill, despite the arrival of the new L'Occitane Cherry Blossom line.
It wasn't a question. Helen had started in the department the same day as me and on that basis decided we should lunch together forever, possibly even in the after-life.
A silent lift-ride later, we settled at the usual window table high above the City of London. Outside, everything was grey. Inside, the abstract wall decorations failed to lift the mood of employees who spoke in muffled voices, walked with muted steps.
'I am taking my parents to see Hamilton,' said Helen, scraping brown avocado onto the edge of her plate.
'But you hate musicals,' I said.
'That's true,' she nodded, 'but my parents love them.'
For once, I left lunch having settled an important matter.
'The Zoo,' said Dad later as we talked while I swallowed a Marks and Spencer chicken korma over the sink. 'That's where we should go. I've been thinking that I would like to see a tiger one final time.'
'Oh Dad,' I said, 'aside from the arthritis, you're not even ill.'
'I was referring to the tigers,' he replied.
And so it came to be that in homage to Pete McIntyre, my Dad and I found ourselves in The London Zoo one warm Thursday afternoon in October, watching an enormous cat take a nap in the sun. Having feared that I was going to be confronted with caged, unhappy animals, I was pleasantly surprised to see the size of the tigers' quarters and told Dad as much.
'Oh yes, they're happy here', said Dad, 'and, what people always forget is that the animals are much safer in a zoo than out in the wild.'
I wasn't sure I agreed entirely, but as we strolled through the park, admiring rare butterflies, birds and wildlife, my spirits lifted further, culminating in a giggle when a monkey ran a finger across the glass that separated her from spectators. She soon got bored and turned around, sticking her red bottom in their gormless faces.
Our final destination was Penguin Beach, a glittering glass enclosure with a deep, turquoise pool, surrounded by rocks, bushes and wooden penguin-huts. The animals had just had their lunch break and were diving and swimming or waddling on the shore, sunning their little bellies. A few had retreated to the shade under a tree where they appeared to be having a meeting.
'What do you think they're saying?' I asked Dad.
'I imagine they're chatting about how marvellous life is', he said, turning towards me, 'you must remember, they don't know anything different.'
I had almost come to accept this when a lone figure near the periphery of the enclosure caught my eye. He looked like the others – penguins do until you get to know them. But where his peers had clearly surrendered to their role as entertainers, this one had withdrawn from the crowd to study the fence behind a small, wooden shed. As he tilted his head, I wondered if he was contemplating an escape over the fence and across the pond. Presumably not an impossible feat if you are of a species that regularly travels hundreds of miles on foot.
Careful to avoid sudden movements, I edged closer, step by step, until the penguin and I were merely a few feet apart – so close I could have touched him had it not been for the glass partition between us.
He turned his head to look at me with one eye before waddling back towards the huts. When he tilted his head sideways, his gaze alternating between his flippers and the fence, I felt his despair.
Back home, I closed the curtains so the neighbours wouldn't see me gulp the firm's Christmas bottle of Möet & Chandon that I had saved for a special occasion. Typing the two short paragraphs took less than five minutes.
Afterwards, I placed the letter in an envelope and raised my champagne coupe. 'Pete McIntyre,' I said, 'may you rest in peace.'
On Friday morning, I went to see Caroline in her glass-walled office. She offered me a seat and closed the door, scanning the letter as she sat down behind her desk.
'Now,' she said, moving back in her chair 'this is a surprise.'
'Well, I guess-'
'Don't take this the wrong way, but are you sure you've thought it through? We're all still shocked at the Peter… episode…and if you need to take a few days, that's absolutely fine.'
'I've thought it through,' I said.
I worked the month out, visiting the penguin enclosure every Saturday morning. He was always there, in the same spot after feeding time, watching the fence. Tilting his head. Once, when the sun was in his eyes, he raised his little hand while focusing his right eye on the partition.
On my last day, Caroline had organised leaving drinks at The Crown and Anchor. Everyone said my departure would be a loss to the firm and I received many gifts, including luggage vouchers and a handwritten note signed by my contacts at the travel agency: 'Dearest Judith. Thank you for many years of excellent cooperation. It has been our pleasure to assist and we wish you all the best for your upcoming adventure.'
I smiled and tried to listen to the speeches. Helen was last, unsurprisingly ending on a request: 'And now, you can finally tell us where you're off to,' she said, pouring Pinot Grigio to the rim of her glass. 'You've been so secretive.'
'Yes,' said Caroline. 'Time to release us from our misery. Which of our competitors will be benefiting from your considerable experience?'
Everyone was looking at me, smiles wide, eyebrows raised, lighters ready for an escape to the courtyard.
'I'm not going to the competition,' I said, sipping my Long Island Iced Tea.
'But where are you going then?' asked Helen.
'To The South Pole,' I said. 'I'm taking a friend home.'
Mette Jolly is co-editor of Funny Pearls.
Previous stories by Mette include New to the High Street (2018), a spoof on her fear of social media and The Zoo (2018), a dystopian satire set in the very near future.


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KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): Based on corporate announcements and news flow today, companies in focus tomorrow could include TRC Synergy Bhd, Axis Real Estate Investment Trust, iDimension Consolidated Bhd, Kejuruteraan Asastera Bhd (KAB), OCR Group Bhd, KKB Engineering Bhd and CIMB Group Holdings Bhd.
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Axis Real Estate Investment Trust's (Axis REIT) net property income (NPI) rose 1.8% in the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2019 (3QFY19) to RM47.87 million from RM47.03 million a year ago, after adding three more properties to its portfolio during the period.
Total income increased by 2.9% year-on-year to RM53.86 million from RM52.35 million, with property income reaching RM53.64 million versus RM52.13 million previously, its stock exchange filing showed. The REIT's net income, however, fell 12.07% to RM26.15 million for the quarter, from RM29.74 million a year ago.
It announced a third income distribution per unit (DPU) of 2.35 sen for 3QFY19 — down one sen from the 2.36 sen it announced in 3QFY18 — which will be paid on Nov 29. The payout represents 99.8% of the REIT's realised income available for distribution generated from its operations during 3QFY19.
An independent and non-executive director of loss-making iDimension Consolidated Bhd, Collin Goonting, has resigned from his post, citing a lack of transparency in the company's board.
Goonting, 72, indicated there has been a lack of transparency within the members of the board and he is very concerned that the interest of the shareholders are not considered when certain decisions are made. "His only option is either to condone the decisions or to resign and he chose the latter," the company said in a Bursa Malaysia filing today, as to the reason for his resignation.
Consequently, he also relinquished his position as a member of the company's audit, remuneration and nomination committees. A practising lawyer who has been active in the corporate and financial sectors both in Malaysia and abroad, Goonting was appointed to Dimension's board on Nov 22, 2013.
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CIMB Group Holdings Bhd announced Adisorn Sermchaiwong's appointment as CIMB Thai Bank PCL president and chief executive officer (CEO) effective Saturday (Oct 19), to ensure the group stays strong against a fast-evolving and challenging operational landscape.
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Bildts [bilts] is a Dutch-West Frisian hybrid language spoken in the largest part of the former municipality Het Bildt (ca. 1505–2017) in the Dutch province of Friesland.[1] The dialect evolved from the early sixteenth century onwards, from around 1505, when the area was reclaimed from the sea as ordered by George, Duke of Saxony. In order to achieve this task, workers from Holland, Zeeland, and Brabant moved to Friesland, and their Low-Franconian dialects mixed with West Frisian. There has been debate on whether the former changed the latter or the other way around, but the dialect has also been called a creole language.
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text: Software & Apps Windows How to Fix STOP 0x00000022 Errors by Tim Fisher General Manager, VP, Lifewire.com Tim Fisher has 30+ years' professional technology support experience. He writes troubleshooting content and is the General Manager of Lifewire. our editorial process Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tim Fisher Updated on July 20, 2019 Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10. Windows The Ultimate Laptop Buying Guide Tweet Share Email 0x00000022 BSOD Error Messages The STOP 0x00000022 error will always appear on a STOP message, more commonly called a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). One of the errors below or a combination of both errors may display on the STOP message: "STOP: 0x00000022""FILE_SYSTEM" The STOP 0x00000022 error may also be abbreviated as STOP 0x22 but the full STOP code will always be what's displayed on the blue screen STOP message. If Windows is able to start after the STOP 0x22 error, you may be prompted with a Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown message that shows: Problem Event Name: BlueScreenBCCode: 22 Cause of STOP 0x00000022 Errors STOP 0x00000022 errors are usually caused by hardware problems (usually hard drive related), software issues, or more rarely device driver issues. How To Fix STOP 0x00000022 Errors Restart your computer if you haven't already done so. It's possible that the 0x00000022 BSOD may not occur again after restarting.Uninstall Kaspersky with their Kaspersky Lab Products Remover tool, assuming, of course, you have any Kaspersky software installed.Once Kaspersky is uninstalled, and you can use Windows normally again, download the latest version of the product you were using from Kaspersky's website and install it again. The 0x22 BSOD isn't likely to return. You may need to start Windows in Safe Mode before you'll have enough access to your computer to uninstall the software. Format the hard drive again if you're getting a 0x00000022 BSOD after installing and formatting a new hard drive. File system issues are the leading cause of these blue screen errors so creating a new one from scratch during the format should fix the problem in these cases.Start the Windows installation process over again if the 0x22 blue screen appeared during, or right after, installing Windows.Run the sfc /scannow command to search for, and automatically replace, any corrupt or missing files that might be contributing to the 0x22 error. You'll need working access to your computer to try System File Checker (the full name of that command you're running) so if this BSOD never gives you a break, or you can't even get to Safe Mode, just skip this for now. Test your hard drive for problems. The 0x00000022 BSOD implies that there's some sort of generic file system issue, which could certainly be due to corruption thanks to a physical hard drive problem... something a test like this will tell you.Replace your hard drive and reinstall Windows (if that's the drive you replaced) if the hard drive test indicates that there's a physical issue with the drive.Perform basic STOP error troubleshooting. If none of the above ideas fixes the 0x22 BSOD you're getting, try the steps in this generic troubleshooting guide in order, skipping any you've already tried. Applies To Any of Microsoft's Windows NT-based operating systems could experience the STOP 0x00000022 error. This includes Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT.


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Normally from the Book of Isaiah, we hear the prophet say over and over again, "Remember the things that God has done for you. Remember the good things that God has done for you." The Book of Isaiah is supposed to encourage us and help us realize that God has done good things for us in the past, and He is going to continue to do good things for us in the future.
It's interesting because in this passage the prophet actually says, "Remember not the things of the past. See, I am doing something new." What he is saying is that God is going to do something in your life unlike anything you have experienced before. Sometimes we have a tendency to think that God only works with us in a certain way. We believe God is able to handle us in only a certain way here. He couldn't possibly do something else. Yet, He wants to do something new in us.
As I was reflecting on the woman caught in adultery, I thought about this whole idea of when Jesus said to her, "Go and sin no more." He is basically giving her a new life of freedom where she can go and experience this new life. When I'm praying with the gospels, I think, "Ok, what is a modern-day experience with this."
So, as I was thinking of the woman caught in adultery, it hit me that the modern day experience that we have for this is pornography. It is something that we see, and we catch people in the very act of doing. I realized what a big epidemic it is in our culture. One of the websites actually calls it the new drug. This is the drug that has a grip on our culture.
The church has this beautiful document on it, and it talks about how all men and women are created in the image and likeness of God and in the love of God in others. Pornography damages this image. We no longer look at people as created in the image and likeness of God. We look at them as objects.
It's pretty profound because it goes on to talk about every single aspect of every single person that's involved and how it damages us. It says that men and women, when they experience this, have a deep sense of shame, and it begins to erode self-worth.
It begins to distort one's own view of this wonderful gift of sexuality and marriage and this coming together of man and woman. We know more and more that it is an addiction. Both science and personal testimonies confirm that people who start by occasionally viewing it later become compulsively trapped in the cycle of fantasy, ritual, acting out and despair. Then it goes back into more fantasy, ritual, acting out and despair.
Meanwhile, it is having an impact on husbands and wives, on families, and on children. There is a section on children that says that young people born into this digital age see something graphic on average by the time they are 11 years old. Think about how damaging that could be to a child's mind.
The article talks about how that exposure can be so traumatic for our youth. Seeing pornographic images can steal their innocence and give them a distorted image of the beauty of sexuality, of relationships, of men and women. It can also make them more vulnerable to sexual abuse themselves.
It talks about marriage and future marriage, for those that are married and those that are preparing for marriage. It says that use within marriage severely damages spouses true intimacy and trust because both the act itself and the viewing become a deception of the lie, and usually involves one spouse or the other hiding their behavior. Now they are hiding this whole ritual from their spouse.
For single men and women who are preparing for marriage, it can be more and more difficult to discern a vocation to the priesthood, to married life, or to consecrated life because there is this damage that has been done to their own dignity. It increases isolation and destroys these young adults from undertaking the work of a real relationship and what it means to enter into a relationship with people.
Pope Francis often uses the image of the church as a field hospital. A field hospital is a place where there is just absolute war and devastation going on.
We're out there, and we're trying to do the best that we can to heal people. He says this beautiful thing, "No wound is so deep, however, as to be out of the reach of Christ's redeeming grace." So, no matter how bad a sin is in our life, no matter how bad we have entered into that, there is no wound too deep for Christ to enter.
I was viewing some of the documentaries of women who had left the industry. They talk about how horrible their lives were while they were there – the physical abuse, the sexual abuse, the drug abuse. They felt like they were no longer women. They truly felt like they had lost their dignity, and it was so hard for them to leave that.
They say to those that were involved in the industry, "Know that you are beloved and cherished by God, and the church reaches out to you, especially those who were victimized by any kind of sex trafficking or sexual abuse or exploitation, especially of children." He says that the way they've been treated is deplorable and unjust, and no matter what they've experienced in the past, they should remember that they are beloved by God. They have this inviolable dignity, a dignity that cannot be destroyed. They are worthy of respect and love.
It talks of those guilty of exploiting others, and again, no sin is too great to forgive, but we exhort them to repent, convert, and put an end to any involvement in spreading this.
Then to men and women who use, "You are beloved sons and daughters of God. Be not afraid to approach the altar of mercy and ask for forgiveness."
I know as a priest who hears confessions it is such an amazing privilege to be there with somebody who is caught and trapped in sin, and they are desperate.
They don't even know if they are lovable anymore. They don't even know if there's a possibility to get out of it. Through the grace and the power of the sacrament, they are able to walk out of there with new hope and open eyes.
The document talks about spouses who have been hurt by their spouse using. It says, "You are greatly loved by the Father and you are not alone. The church accompanies you with love and tenderness as you confront this sin and its effects on your marriage and your family.
You have been deeply hurt, betrayed, deceived and even traumatized at what you may have found or discovered." Christ can ultimately heal these wounds, too. So seek solace in prayer, receive the sacraments and Eucharistic adoration. I think what is so beautiful about Eucharistic adoration is we gaze at the body of Christ. We restore the glory of what the human body is called to lead us to.
It talks to parents and says to them, "Be vigilant. Be on guard. Protect your homes. Do not let this into your home. Watch what your children do. Talk to your children about it, but also, educate yourselves on all the different ways they can be exposed to it so you can be one step ahead of them."
To all those who work with the youth, especially here at Walsh, you can have a great influence on the young just by being a role model in your life. You can help equip them with resources to protect themselves and to walk with others.
Then to all, there is this reminder that God created you in His image and likeness. The church looks to you with compassion and love no matter what you have said or done.
Think of Jesus and the woman caught in the very act of adultery. He looks at her with nothing but unconditional love. Then He says to her, "Go and sin no more."
I remember when I heard this line in the past, I would think, "Man, she better not screw this up. He's given her a new chance, right?" It's all on us. But, it's not. Jesus has had this amazing intimate moment with her, and He's basically saying to her, "You don't ever have to go back to that again. You're free."
I think about the line from the first reading, "Remember not the events of the past." I think pornography and sexual addiction leaves these memories in our minds that seem to never go away, yet Jesus gives us the freedom and the power to go and sin no more.
Having said all this, I invite everyone to think about how we're all impacted by this just by the age that we live in. But don't despair. Know that there is no sin that God can't redeem, and remember that He's doing something new. He wants to do something new in us that is more powerful than anything He's ever done before.
Just as He looked at that woman that was caught in adultery, He looks at each and every one of us with nothing but love. When He says to us, "Go and sin no more," He's giving us the freedom to know that we don't ever have to go back to that.
As you come to the Eucharist today, I invite you to ask God for that gift of complete redemption. As we receive the body of Christ, may He be in us and totally redeem us, body, mind, soul and spirit, so we remember not the things of the past. May we know and believe in the healing and the freedom that the Lord desires to bring to us.


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- 5.11.5 Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income
- 18.104.22.168 Program Scope and Objectives
- 22.214.171.124.1 Background
- 220.127.116.11.2 Authority
- 18.104.22.168.3 Responsibilities
- 188.8.131.52.4 Program Management and Review
- 126.96.36.199.5 Program Controls
- 220.127.116.11.6 Terms/Definitions/Acronyms
- 184.108.40.206.7 Related Resources
- 220.127.116.11 Employer Threatens to Fire Taxpayer Because of a Levy
- 220.127.116.11 Continuous Effect of Levy on Salary and Wages
- 188.8.131.52 Exempt Amount
- 126.96.36.199.1 Claiming the Exempt Amount
- 126.96.36.199.2 Employers with Centralized Payrolls
- 126.96.36.199.3 Joint Liabilities
- 126.96.36.199.4 Taxpayers with More Than One Source of Income
- 126.96.36.199.5 Taxpayer's Payroll Deductions
- 188.8.131.52.6 Severance Pay
- 126.96.36.199 Levy Payments
- 126.96.36.199 Continuous Levy
- 184.108.40.206.1 Monitoring Levy Payments
- 22.214.171.124.2 Systemic Monitoring of Continuous Levy Payments
- 18.104.22.168.3 Manual Monitoring of Continuous Levy Payments
- 22.214.171.124 Defaulted/Terminated Systemically Monitored Levy Received in the Field
- Exhibit 5.11.5-1 Acronyms
- 184.108.40.206 Program Scope and Objectives
Part 5. Collecting Process
Chapter 11. Notice of Levy
Section 5. Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income
5.11.5 Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income
Manual Transmittal
June 13, 2018
(1) This transmits revised IRM 5.11.5, Notice of Levy, Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income.
Material Changes
(1) IRM 126.96.36.199 is revised to include internal controls information.
(2) IRM 184.108.40.206(3) is revised to add link to IRM 25.18.4, Collection of Taxes in Community Property States.
(3) IRM 184.108.40.206(2) is revised per the Tax Cut and Job Act for 2017 (TCJA) for years when personal exemption amount is zero.
(4) IRM 18.104.22.168(3) add new section which defines amount determined (number of the taxpayer's dependents) and adds an example.
(5) IRM 184.108.40.206(5) is revised per TCJA to replace "exemptions" with correct term "dependents."
(6) IRM 220.127.116.11.1 is revised per TCJA to replace "exemptions" with correct term "dependents."
(7) IRM 126.96.36.199.1(1) is revised per TCJA to allow exempt amount of a married individual filing a separate return with no dependents.
(8) IRM 184.108.40.206.1(3) is revised to add that taxpayer's should be instructed to file a new statement with their employer so that the exempt amount is calculated consistent with the current law.
(9) IRM 18.104.22.168.2 is revised to rename Statement of Dependents and Filing Status from Form 668-W.
(10) IRM 188.8.131.52.3 is revised per TCJA to replace personal exemption with dependents.
(11) IRM 184.108.40.206.1(1) is revised to remind group managers to insure that all assets were considered before approving a continuous levy.
(12) IRM 5.11.5 is revised throughout to use reference to new Form 668-W, and removing out of date references.
(13) Editorial changes were made throughout this IRM to update website addresses, legal references, and IRM references.
Effect on Other DocumentsThis supersedes IRM 5.11.5 dated December 12, 2016.
AudienceSB/SE Collection Field function revenue officers and tax examining technicians in SB/SE Collections Centralized Case Processing.
Effective Date(06-13-2018)
Kristen Bailey
Director, Collection Policy
Purpose: This Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) section describes the process and procedures for serving notices of levy on a delinquent taxpayer's wages, salary, and other income. Refer to IRM 220.127.116.11.1, Pre-Levy Considerations when determining whether to levy the taxpayer's wages. Specifically, this IRM section:
Discusses threats of loss of employment because of levy
Provides authority for continuing levy on salary and wages per IRC 6331(e)
Outlines procedures for determining an individual taxpayer's wages, salary, and other income, that are exempt from levy
Describes crediting levy payments to the taxpayers account
Establishes processing continuous levies for disposition
Audience: This IRM is designed for use by revenue officers and tax examining technicians and their managers.
Policy Owner: Director, Collection Policy. Collection Policy is an organization under Small Business/Sell-Employed Division (SBSE), Collection.
Program Owner: SBSE Collection Policy, Enforcement.
Program Goals: Enforcement is a necessary component of a voluntary assessment system, see IRM 188.8.131.52.1, Policy Statement 5-1. While we will actively assist taxpayers to comply, we will also take appropriate enforcement actions when warranted to resolve the delinquency. Levies are an important enforcement tool. By following the procedures in this IRM, revenue officers will be able to follow the unique requirements for levies on wages, salary, and other income which include payment for personal services in a work relationship.
Internal Revenue Code IRC 6331(e), Continuing levy on salary and wages provides a levy on salary or wages has continuous effect from the time the levy originally is made until the levy is released pursuant to IRC 6343. The term salary or wages includes compensation for services paid in the form of fees, commissions, bonuses, and similar items.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) suspends the deduction for personal exemptions, and increases the basic standard deduction for individuals across all filing statuses, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 and before January 1, 2026. The law added IRC 6334(d)(4), Years when personal exemption amount is zero.
IRC 6330 - Notice and opportunity for hearing before levy.
IRC 6331 - Levy and distraint.
IRC 6334 - Property exempt from levy.
Treasury Regulations § 301.6331–1, Levy and distraint.
Treasury Regulations § 301.6334–2, Wages, salary, and other income.
IRM 126.96.36.199.6, Policy Statement 5-29, Levy on salary or wages—Generally limited to "take home" pay.
The Director, Collection Policy is responsible for all policies within the levy program.
The National Program Manager, Enforcement is responsible for development and delivery of policies within the levy program.
Managers of employees who issue levies are responsible for ensuring these procedures are followed and employee actions are timely and accurate.
Revenue officers and collection advisors are responsible for following the procedures in this IRM.
Integrated Collection System (ICS) is used by field revenue officers as a method for generating levy documents that are issued to third party levy sources.
The Collection Activity Reports (CAR) report number 5000–24 records the total number of levies issued. Total Levies are the sum of Field, SB/SE ACS and W & I ACS (monthly and cumulative). The data sources are the ACS Customer Service Activity Reports (CSAR) - Monthly Support Site Report (ACS Levies) and ICS (Field Levies). See IRM 126.96.36.199, Levy and Seizure Report (Report Symbol NO-5000-24). The IRS has determined that levy data may be made available as national statistics, provided that such data will never be used to evaluate any employee or to suggest or impose production quotas or goals. See IRM 1.5.2, Managing Statistics in a Balanced Measurement System, Uses of Section 1204 Statistics.
Levy program numbers are published yearly in the IRS Data Book, Enforcement: Collections, Penalties & Criminal Investigation, in Table 16 at https://www.irs.gov/uac/enforcement-collections-penalties-criminal-investigation.
Targeted program reviews are periodically performed by Collection Policy to determine whether IRM guidance requires clarification or revision.
Management will ensure program effectiveness through managers' case reviews, operational reviews conducted by the territory, Area, and Field Collection Director, and NQRS reviews.
National Quality Review System (NQRS), Attribute 416, Appropriate Enforcement Tools, Attribute 417, Managerial Approvals for Enforcement and 607, Taxpayer Rights provide independent collection review information from which management may draw inferences regarding overall case quality for this attribute. See IRM 5.13.1, Embedded Quality Administrative Guidelines.
Embedded Quality Review System (EQRS), Collection managers use EQRS Attribute 416, Appropriate Enforcement Tools, and Attribute 607, Taxpayer Rights to complete all case reviews for revenue officers.
Levy on salary or wages—Generally limited to "take home" pay. See IRM 188.8.131.52.6, Policy Statement 5-29.
Programming safeguards are built into the ICS system to prevent a levy from being generated on a module where the required notices have not been issued. The ICS system also has controls to reflect the status of the levy, i.e, open, closed etc.
Centralized Case Processing (CCP) monitors certain continuous levies in the same way manually monitored installment agreements are monitored. See IRM 220.127.116.11.1, Monitoring Continuous Wage Levies.
The following table defines terms associated with the field levy program:
Term Definition Automated Levy Automated levies are levies issued through the Automated Levy Programs. These levies are transmitted electronically. The proceeds are also received electronically. Manual Levy A manual ICS levy is a paper levy that is manually prepared and issued by an RO. Paper levy Either a manual or systemic levy on Form 668-A, or Form 668-W, that is prepared and issued by an RO. Systemic Levy ICS systemic levies are initiated by ROs resulting in levy preparation and issuance by the ICS system.
See Exhibit 5.11.5-1 for list of Acronyms.
The ICS User Guide, Chapter 10 - Levy details all the functions necessary to maintain levy sources, issue levies and final demands, and close or release levies. See http://mysbse.web.irs.gov/collection/collsystems/ics/guides/userguide/default.aspx
The National Levy Source Look-Up web page provides up-to-date levy source name and address information. See https://acsweb.enterprise.irs.gov/nlsweb/pages/nl08.xhtml.
The MySB/SE, Enforcement web page provides access to various information and job aids related to the levy program. Seehttp://mysbse.web.irs.gov/Collection/toolsprocesses/Enforcement/Levy/default.aspx
The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TBOR) links to listing of those rights that already existed in the tax code, putting them in simple language and grouping them into 10 broad categories. See https://www.irs.gov/taxpayer-bill-of-rights. For additional information see IRM 126.96.36.199, Policy Statement 1-236.
Below are recommended resources, which can be used to address questions on levy guidance.
IRM Title Guidance On IRM 5.11.1 through IRM 5.11.7 Notice of Levy
Notice of Levy, Background, Pre-Levy Actions, Restrictions on Levy & Post-Levy Actions
Serving Levies, Releasing Levies and Returning Property
Jeopardy Levy without a Jeopardy Assessment
Bank Levies
Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income
Notice of Levy in Special Cases
Automated Levy Programs
IRM 5.17.3 Legal Reference Guide for Revenue Officers, Levy and Sale This section discusses how the IRS administratively enforces the tax lien using its power to levy on and sell property of the taxpayer or property encumbered with a federal tax lien.
Sometimes an employer threatens to fire an employee to avoid handling a levy. This might be a violation of 15 USC 1674.
If the employer fires the taxpayer because of this, the employer might be fined not more than $1000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
Refer the taxpayer to the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL). The DOL, not the IRS, must decide if the employer violated the law.
Unlike other levies, a levy on a taxpayer's wages and salary has a continuous effect. It attaches to future payments, until the levy is released. Wages and salary include fees, bonuses, commissions, and similar items. Except for levies on specified payments listed in IRC 6331(h) all other levies only attach to property and rights to property that exist when the levy is served. See IRM 18.104.22.168.20, Salary.
If a bank account is levied, it only reaches money in the account when the levy is served. It does not reach money deposited later.
When other income is levied, the levy reaches a payment the taxpayer has a fixed and determinable right to. If the taxpayer's right to that payment is not dependent upon the performance of future services, then the levy will reach the future payments as well. Also see IRM 18.104.22.168, Retirement Income.
A Form 668-A is issued to levy an author's royalties. The author has a fixed and determinable right to royalties for books that have already been published. The levy reaches royalties for sales of those books in the future. The levy does not reach royalties for books that are written and published later. A new levy must be served to take those royalties.
Also, see IRM 188.8.131.52, Levy on Non-Liable Spouse in a Community Property State, and IRM 126.96.36.199, Levies Against a Non-Liable Spouse to Reach a Liable Spouse's Share of Community Property for guidance when the wage levy on the non-liable spouse is not continuous.
Part of the individual taxpayer's wages, salary, (including fees, bonuses, commissions and similar items) and other income, as well as retirement and benefit income, is exempt from levy.
Under IRC 6334(d), the weekly exempt amount is:
The total of the taxpayer's standard deduction and the amount determined on an income tax return for the year the levy is served.
Then, this total is divided by 52.
Under the TCJA, IRC 6334(d)(2), Property exempt from levy is not in effect for taxable years 2018 through 2025 because the "exemption amount" for any deduction for personal exemptions is zero for such taxable years pursuant to IRC 151 (d)(5). For these taxable years, the "exempt amount" for property exempt from levy is determined under IRC 6334(d)(4), Years when personal exemption amount is zero."
IRC 152Dependent defined as a "qualifying child or qualifying relative." Taxpayers cannot claim themselves as a dependents.
Income that is not paid weekly is prorated, so the same amount is exempt.
In addition, the amount the taxpayer needs to pay court ordered child support entered prior to the levy is exempt.
The support order can originate from a court or administrative process under the laws and procedures of a state, territory or possession.
If support is allowed, the same child can not be claimed as a dependent for figuring the exempt amount. IRM 126.96.36.199(2) above.
If Then The taxpayer has already shown proof of the required child support payment Write on the levy form, "Under section 6334 (a)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code, $ ____________________is exempt from this levy." The taxpayer shows proof of the child support after the levy is served Release enough of the levy so the support can be paid.
The taxpayer is not entitled to the support exemption unless the support is being paid.
Consider getting the taxpayer to have the child support payment withheld and sent directly to the person with custody.
Or, the taxpayer may make the child support payment through the Service, and the Service will forward the payment. When there is no open assignment, have the payments sent through Submission Processing. This may happen if the payments are being monitored in the campus.
The Notice of Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income (Form 668-W) was developed for use when an individual may be entitled to the minimum exemption from levy in IRC 6334(a)(9) and includes a Statement of Dependents and Filing Status. The employer gives the statement to the taxpayer to complete and return within three days. If it is not received by then, the exempt amount is figured as if the taxpayer is married filing separate with no dependents (zero). The taxpayer can give the statement to the employer later to change the exempt amount.
Publication 1494, Tables for Figuring Amount Exempt From Levy on Wages, Salary, and Other Income - Forms 668-W(ACS), 668-W(c)(DO) and 668-W(ICS), is sent with the levy to help figure the exempt amount.
The taxpayer can give a new statement to the employer later to have the exempt amount recomputed. If a levy was served prior to January 1, 2018, the effective date of the TCJA, then the taxpayer's exemption amount will have been calculated under the old law, and the exemption amount will not be accurate. Thus, taxpayers in this situation should be instructed to file a new statement with their employer so that the exempt amount is calculated consistent with the current law. Likewise, taxpayers whose exemption amounts were calculated after January 1, 2018 but prior to the Pub. 1494 being revised to reflect the TCJA should also be instructed to file a new statement with their employer.
The statement is completed under penalty of perjury. Generally, accept the information on the statement, unless there is reason to question it. If dependents are disallowed, notify the employer and the taxpayer in writing. The taxpayer can provide evidence that the statement is right and request managerial review. Include a statement that the taxpayer may provide evidence to prove the statement is accurate and may request a managerial review of the disallowance.
Some employers have a centralized payroll, so the payroll is not handled where most employees work.
Consider mailing the Statement of Dependents and Filing Status directly to the taxpayer. This avoids the delay of the employer re-mailing it.
Send to the employer Part 1 of the levy form and Notice 484, Instructions to Employer with Centralized Payroll System for Processing Statement of Dependents and Filing Status.
Send to the taxpayer the other parts of the levy form and Notice 483, Instructions to Employee Paid through Central Payroll System for Submitting Statement of Dependents and Filing Status.
For joint liabilities, generally levy the income of the spouse with the larger income.
Levy both incomes only in flagrant cases of neglect or refusal to pay. Secure group manager approval to issue notices of levy on the income of both spouses living in the same household. If taxpayers are separated, consider collecting from both spouses' income rather than collecting from one spouse's income.
If And Then The taxpayers are filing as married filing jointly Both taxpayers' incomes are levied Only one of them can claim the standard deduction for figuring the exempt amount. The taxpayers are filing with any other filing status Both taxpayers' incomes are levied Both can claim the standard deduction for their filing status. The taxpayers are remarried and filing as married filing jointly with the new spouses. Both taxpayers' incomes are levied Both can claim the standard deduction for their filing status.
When both spouses' incomes are levied, neither spouse can claim the other one as a dependent.
Consider income from all sources when a taxpayer has more than one income source.
If And Then The taxpayer is getting the exempt amount from one source of income that is levied Another source of income is levied, too Include Letter 1697 with the second levy to tell the employer not to allow any exempt amount. If the taxpayer has a source of income that is not levied That source of income is at least as much as the exempt amount Letter 1697 can be included with a levy on another source of income to tell the employer not to allow the exempt amount.
Use ICS templates to generate Letter 1697.
A levy legally attaches to the taxpayer's gross income minus the exempt amount; however, see IRM 22.214.171.124.6, Policy Statement 5-29. By policy, a levy only attaches the taxpayer's usual take home pay.
Generally, allow the taxpayer to maintain deductions they already have when the levy is served. Notify the employer and the taxpayer of deductions that must stop while the levy is in effect. The taxpayer can request managerial review.
Generally, employers should not allow new voluntary deductions after receiving the levy. Exceptions can be allowed on a case by case basis, with the Service's approval.
The taxpayer may leave a job and get severance pay.
If Then Severance pay is attributable to pay for a period of time The exempt amount is based on that time period. Severance pay is not attributable to pay for a period of time The amount exempt for one pay period is used.
Severance pay is one week's pay for each year on the job. A taxpayer on the job for ten years gets ten weeks' severance pay. The taxpayer gets a paycheck every two weeks for ten weeks. Two weeks' exempt amount is subtracted from each check, just like the person was still working for ten weeks.
Severance pay is one week's pay for each year on the job. A taxpayer on the job for ten years gets ten weeks' severance pay. The taxpayer gets the amount in one payment after their employment has ended. The payment is attributable to ten weeks' pay. The employer is just making an "advance" payment, instead of writing a series of checks. The taxpayer gets ten weeks' exempt amount.
A taxpayer gets a lump sum that is not attributable to a period of time. This could be, for example, an incentive payment to retire early. The exempt amount is based on the taxpayer's regular pay period. If there is no regular pay period, use one week's exempt amount. Similarly, if the taxpayer gets $1000 for each year on the job, this is not a attributable to pay periods. A person getting $10,000 for being on the job ten years does NOT get ten years' exempt amount.
This assumes the person is not already getting the exempt amount for a pay period at the same time. If both are being received, the taxpayer does not get the exempt amount twice.
Credit levy payments on the date they are received. Apply the money in the most advantageous way to the government. Generally, apply it to the oldest assessment first. The taxpayer can not designate how to apply the money because this is not a voluntary payment.
Surplus levy proceeds in excess of the periods covered by the levy, may be applied to liabilities not listed on the levy. If the periods listed on the original levy have been satisfied; and
Any surplus proceeds have been applied to any liabilities that were not listed on the levy; and
Liabilities remain outstanding for periods not covered by the original levy,
then release the original levy and prepare and issue a new notice of levy to the levy source for the remaining liabilities. Surplus levy proceeds may not be applied to individual SRP modules (shown as MFT 35 or MFT 65). Please note that all statutory requirements, such as the sending of a notice of intent to levy and a right to a hearing, must be met with regard to the new notice of levy if the taxpayer has not had an opportunity for a CDP hearing under IRC 6330 for the remaining liabilities. See IRM 184.108.40.206, Pre-Levy Actions, for guidance regarding the pre-levy statutory requirements.
Use designated payment code (DPC) 05 for levy payments received from a third party in response to a Notice of Levy. Do not use for payments from the taxpayer as a result of a levy.
Because payments for levies on wages and salary may be small, determine if the amount owed should be paid from the levy proceeds. When the payments are small compared to the amount owed, though, consider other enforced collection.
If And Then Payments are being monitored in CFf One more payment is expected to pay off the amount owed Use Form 668–D, Release of Levy/Release of Property from Levy, to give the employer a payoff figure and release the levy after that is paid. At least two payments are received No additional collection is warranted Consider transferring the case for monitoring. Get managerial approval, first.
Even though some continuous levies are monitored in status 60 on IDRS, they are not installment agreements. Do not use a continuous levy as a way to set up an unofficial installment agreement. In order to ensure a distinction is maintained between a continuous levy and an installment agreement, it is important to follow the procedures in this subsection.
If a productive levy source is the only source of collection, group managers should approve the monitoring of levy payments as continuous by signing Form 4844, Request for Terminal Action, after ensuring the procedures outlined below have been followed. Ensure revenue officers have considered other available and appropriate means of collection including, but not limited to seizure of assets, alter ego, installment agreements, etc. Group manager approval of the continuous wage levy In ICS is sufficient to reflect the action is authorized.
The following types of levies can be monitored in a campus or Centralized Case Processing (CCP).
Continuous levies on wages and salaries
Levies that reach a taxpayer's fixed and determinable right to a series of payments, e.g., benefit and retirement or pension income or social security benefits. See IRM 184.108.40.206.2, Effect of Levy.
If levy payments are received monthly, then transfer for monitoring after two consecutive levy payments have been received.
If levy payments are received weekly or bi-weekly, then transfer for monitoring after 60 days.
See IRM 18.104.22.168, Delinquent Return Investigation Closures, to close the ICS Del Ret module when the Bal Dues are to be resolved by a continuous levy.
Prior to transferring for systemic or manual monitoring,
Ensure all open periods are included in the levy or levies.
Ensure the payor (levy source) understands the levy remains in effect after the transfer.
Ensure the payor understands where to send the levy payment.
For a continuous levy that will be systemically or manually monitored, payments should be sent to the campus designated for the Area. See the Servicewide Electronic Research Program (SERP), Who/Where, Where to File – Forms and Payments, Campus Balance Due Accounts – Where to Send Payments,
Use the State address listed under "Without the CP521/523 Notice."
Instruct the payor that payments should be payable to "United States Treasury."
Request the check or draft reflect the taxpayer name and identification number, the tax periods included on the levy form, and "Levy Proceeds."
Letter 5112, Payment Instructions to Third Party Responding to Notice of Levy on Wages, Salary and Other Income may be sent to third parties responding to Form 668-W, Notice of Levy on Wages, Salary and Other Income. The letter provides the recipient with response and payment instructions, as detailed in IRM 126.96.36.199.1(6).
When a case has been identified /selected for FPLP and the manager approves the ICS Option C - Continuous Levy; ICS will process and a TC 971, AC 061 will upload systemically. Once the TC 971, AC 061 is input a TC 972, AC 060 will systemically generate.
If the taxpayer contacts the IRS requesting a release of levy after the continuous levy has been set up follow procedures in IRM 184.108.40.206, Releasing Levies, to determine if the levy should be released. The taxpayer may appeal as outlined in IRM 5.1.9, Collection Appeal Rights. Additionally, see IRM 126.96.36.199.1(8), Exclusions from CAP for referrals to Taxpayer Advocate Service.
Wage levies that result in regular remittances of about the same amount, may be monitored systemically if the earliest CSED is later than 18 months. For each levy with payment received from one levy source, request a review date:
No more than five years in the future,
18 months prior to the earliest CSED if the earliest CSED is at least 24 months in the future, or
9 months prior to the earliest CSED if the earliest CSED is less than 24 months in the future.
If fewer than 18 months remain prior to the CSED, a continuous wage levy must be monitored manually.
Revenue officers cannot close a case module on a FPLP levy source without converting the FPLP levy to the paper levy. The FPLP excludes Status 60 modules. Status 60 is normally used for continuous levies or installment agreements. For guidance see IRM 184.108.40.206.5.1, FPLP or Paper Levy (Form 668-A/668-W).
For all continuous levies, if the levy source sends payments on a weekly or bi-weekly (every two weeks) basis, the levy may be monitored systemically using the monthly total of these payments. In this situation, monitor payments for 60 days to ascertain the correct monthly total to be entered on the Form 4844, Request for Terminal Action. Do not close the case on ICS until the Form 4844 is submitted for input.
Do not input transaction code (TC) 971, action code (AC) 063 (Installment Agreement) on Bal Dues included in a continuous levy.
Document the ICS case history with "Monitor Continuous Levy the same as IA."
No TSIGN change is required for levy monitoring. Systemically monitored levies will be transferred to Compliance Service Collection Operation (CSCO) (formerly SCCB).
To complete the ICS template version of Form 4844 choose "Contin. Levy - ST60" in Installment Agreement, Option C-Continuous Levy on ICS. The following information will be populated into the Form 4844:
Request for input of status 60;
"Suppress Default and Payment Reminder Notices" ;
The amount of the payment will be $$$ and will be received on the date # of each month;
Name of the employer/payor levied;
Address of employer/payor levied;
Telephone number of employer/payor levied;
"Input Installment Agreement Locator Number 0208" ;
For wage levies that will be released when the CSED expires, request input of TC 971 AC 687, misc. 002 for each module included in the continuous levy;
For levies that reach a fixed and determinable right to receive future payments (e.g., retirement or pension income, Social Security benefits) and will not be released when the CSED expires, request input of TC 971 AC 687, misc. 001 for each module included in the continuous levy. See IRM 220.127.116.11.6.1, TC 971 AC 687, and Miscellaneous Codes for CSED, for explanation of miscellaneous codes. See IRM 188.8.131.52.1.2, Statutory Collection Period Expired, for when levies do not have to be released.
When approved the information from the Form 4844 is written into the ICS history. The group manager has the option to either email the approved Form 4844, or print and mail Form 4844 to CCP/General Case Processing Unit .
Route the physical case file to CCP using the ICS generated Form 3210.
CSCO will send Form 668-D, Release of Levy/Release of Property from Levy, one month prior to the account being full paid advising the employer of the amount to remit to full pay the levy.
At the time of the review discussed in paragraph (1) above, campus Installment Agreement Account Listing (IAAL) personnel will:
Attempt to secure an installment agreement to fully pay the taxes;
Consider other avenues of collection such as offer in compromise or part pay installment agreement;
Consider recommending the account(s) be reduced to a judgment.
Some continuous levies cannot be transferred to CSCO for systemic monitoring in status 60. Transfer those continuous levies to Centralized Case Processing (CCP) for monitoring in the same way manually monitored installment agreements are monitored. The following types of accounts and levies must be monitored in CCP:
NMF accounts;
Accounts with a wage levy and fewer than 18 months remaining prior to the earliest CSED;
Accounts with an unreversed TC 971, AC 065 (claim pending for joint and several liability relief under IRC section 6015);
In-Business Trust Fund accounts;
Levies with irregular payments dates;
Levies with irregular payment amounts;
Levies with payments received from multiple levy sources
Levies on a spouse whose SSN is not the Bal Due account TIN;
Levies on seasonal employees unless payments will satisfy the Bal Dues.
Do not input TC 971 AC 063 (Installment Agreement) on Bal Dues included in a continuous levy.
Note the Bal Due account and document the case history, "Monitor Continuous Levy as IA."
To complete the ICS template version of Form 4844 choose "Contin. Levy MMIA (CCP)" in Installment Agreement, Option C-Continuous Levy on ICS. Selecting this option will set the sub code to "902," the location field in the Name and Address will set to "LEVY." The following information will be populated into the Form 4844.
"Transfer to CCP for Manually Monitored Continuous Levy Payments" ;
The amount of the payment will be $$$ and will be received on the date # of each month;
Name of the employer/payor levied;
Address of employer/payor levied;
Telephone number of employer/payor levied;
For wage levies that will be released when the CSED expires, request input of TC 971 AC 687, misc. 002 for each module included in the continuous levy;
For levies that reach a fixed and determinable right to receive future payments (e.g., retirement or pension income, Social Security benefits) and will not be released when the CSED expires, request input of TC 971 AC 687, misc. 001 for each module included in the continuous levy. See IRM 188.8.131.52.6.1, TC 971 AC 687, and Miscellaneous Codes for CSED, for explanation of miscellaneous codes. See IRM 18.104.22.168.1.2, Statutory Collection Period Expired, for when levies do not have to be released.
If fewer than 18 months remain in the statutory period for collection when the account(s) is being transferred to CCP and the levy will be released when the CSED expires, document the case history to include the following statement "CSED = (insert date). No suit recommended."
If a copy of the levy form is not available in the case file, document the case history accordingly.
The manager will review the case for approval and return the Form 4844 to the requestor. When approved the information from the Form 4844 is written into the ICS history and the manager is given option to either email or print the Form 4844, Form 3210.
Do not email the Form 4844 to CCP for Manually Monitored Continuous Levies. The ICS assignment number is automatically updated. See "Note" in paragraph (8) below.
After approval, place a copy of the approved Form 4844 in the physical case file.
Route the physical case file to CCP using the generated Form 3210.
CCP will monitor continuous levies to ensure payments are received timely. If payments are not received, CCP will follow-up with the payor.
CCP will send a notice of levy release one month prior to the account being full paid advising the payor of the amount due to full pay the levy. A notice of levy release will not be issued until:
All Bal Dues for which the levy was made are full paid;
The last CSED is about to expire so the wage levy is released far enough in advance that no payments are received for wages earned after the expiration of the CSED;
One of the criteria in IRM 184.108.40.206, Releasing Levies, exists;
For CSED cases assigned for monitoring, CCP will:
Not release the wage levy if one or more CSED expires, but other periods included on the levy are within the statutory period for collection;
Monitor levy payments until all Bal Dues included on the levy are paid or the last CSED on a wage levy is about to expire, whichever comes first;
Follow the procedures in IRM 126.96.36.199.2, Systemic Monitoring of Continuous Levy Payments, above if some Bal Dues are full paid or the CSED expires on one or more but not all periods and the case now qualifies for systemic monitoring. Note on the copy of the levy form, "The following period(s) have expired CSEDs:" and list the applicable Bal Due periods.
Levy sources sometimes stop sending payments. This can be the result of intentional or unintentional actions by the taxpayer or the levy source. If the campus or CCP cannot resolve these cases, they may be transferred to the field for follow-up action.
Once these cases are assigned to the field:
Determine why the payments stopped;
Follow manually monitored procedures if irregular payments are being received;
Follow manually or systemically monitored procedures as appropriate if payments begin again.
If the levy source is the same, a new levy form is not needed. Complete Form 4844 and state why no copy of the levy is being provided and the reason why the levy defaulted.
If the third party refuses to comply with the levy, determine if issuance of Form 668-C, Final Demand, is appropriate. See IRM 126.96.36.199.9, Refusing to Comply with a Levy.
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|Automated Collection System
|Bal Due
|Balance Due
|Collection Appeals Program
|Centralized Case Processing
|Collection Due Process
|Compliance Services Collection Operations
|Collection Statute Expiration Date
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|Delinquent Return
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|Federal Payment Levy Program
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#BlackEdChat: In 2020, We Must Demand a Black Education Agenda
We don't need candidates talking education business as usual - we need policymakers protecting Black youth from hostile systems
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#BlackEdChat | by Christina Laster in TheRoot.com
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As a Black woman, mother and grandmother, the words I want to hear from presidential candidates on "public education" are this: How do we innovate for, build true academic progress around and save trapped Black students from dysfunctional education systems?
Full stop.
Instead, what I've heard as candidates discuss education on the campaign trail — like what they did last month during a major forum on the topic — is that Democratic presidential "hopefuls" are eager to just carry out business as usual.
Now, here we are in 2020, and there are still few signs the "leaders" of the education conversation are really prioritizing it. Amid all the ambitious talk of wealth tax increases, funding formula fixes, teacher and para-educator pay increases, student debt loan reductions, fully funded IDEA, Title I tripling, universal pre-K, and CTE pathways, we haven't yet heard candidates share a plan that eliminates present inequities and race-based disparities. We have learned, however, that candidates are paying little attention to Black children, K through 12, trapped inside toxic buildings, school-to-prison pipelines and worsening achievement gaps—with no plans to remedy that list and more anytime soon.
It's true that we need a public education conversation. But, you can't have that conversation by ignoring America's very destructive Black student crisis. Maybe we'd have one if we considered or included the voice of Black parents who know all about that. Instead, no one is sounding alarms about National Assessment of Educational Progress 12th Grade Reading Level Assessments showing just 17 percent of Black high school seniors at or above reading proficiency — the lowest of any demographic group. Or how Black 8th graders remain dead last in mathematics proficiency scores behind all their racial peers.
Missing from the education conversation are plans, policies and models that punish teachers, schools and districts that disproportionately target Black students for that kind of curriculum or for excessive suspension and expulsion. Also missing is a plan to identify and create policies that protect Black youth from the daily attacks they face in a hostile public school system.
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Today was a very exciting day in Nursery – we became scientists, making predictions and carrying out some fun experiments.
In our first experiment we helped to make a boat for Supertato to stop his cape getting wet when he crossed the river! We explored different materials and decided that plastic was a good material for the job! We talked about what would happen if the plastic got a hole in it and some of the children explained that the water would "come inside the boat and it would sink". Miss Kavanagh and Miss Brookhouse were very impressed with our use of scientific language.
We also looked at how our senses work together to help us to taste different flavours! We tried to guess the flavour of the skittles when holding our noses but it was very tricky!!
Finally we explored how colours run and mix together to make new colours! We liked predicting what would happen to the skittles when water was added but we were amazed by what happened.


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As Taylor writes, "the use of a randomizer in art was not new," specifically exemplified in the work of Dadaists through chance happenings — yet Taylor goes on to clarify that such mechanisms are different from mechanical chance. The computer as a determined system does not truly attempt true chance, for the procedures of randomness need to be determined in the first place, which seems antithetical to the spirit of happenstance. Nonetheless, it is randomness through stochastic procedures that codify Georg Nees work. Perhaps the failures of the machine to capture physical randomness is irrelevant to Nees' desire — the more important question is, what does randomness for the computer specifically entail.
In following Georg Nees' work, I found it not truly random on my end but definitely on the end of the computer. This reveals two forms of randomness: the chance-event and the probability; I am more interested in the event (the product, the process, the the coding methods) while the computer is importan in its "aleatoric moments." Of course, as the artist, I find myself subject to whims and aesthetic affect, and I want to like what comes out; the machine does not make visual judgment, it seems to only examine possibilities and dissolve others without a logic to it beyond rationality.
In a similar light to Molnar, randomness in conjunction with repetition allows "new aesthetic configurations" that can further extend understand of what is most interesting. The important facet of this process is that randomness in a computational context seems to require even more order or form than perhaps other forms of art-making. Within this framework, Taylor suggests Nees' 23-Corner Graphic allows for different shapes to be made almost in thanks to the unaffected randomness of the machine.
But a facet of this randomness seems to be illuminated through active processing (not static) which Nees did not use as far I know. Calls and functions utilizing random upon being animated are continuously randomized, and it is in the continuous randomness that almost-patterns seem to just barely elude being actualized while remaining nonetheless present. The temporality of randomness also varies in the scale of time. Though the default frame rate is 60, if we slowed down the drawing processes, the pattern is of course harder to notice, as we get to better digest individual frames. Yet to speed up the frame rate, so much happens that it almost seems like nothing happens. Thus, patterns ensue and randomness almost gives in to order of code.
In the possibility of aleatory behavior, Taylor describes randomness as "the actual means or or methodology of realizing machine production." Randomness was equated for many computer artists to intuition, something almost monopolized by the domains of humanism and art. Thus, through simulated intuition, the computer stops by an instrument and starts to be an actor in the product of art making.
Stochastic is defined by a quick google search as "randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely." It is this evasion of precision despite being a apparatus for accuracy that truly marked the computer as an object of interest for many. Though we of course are capable of creating new configurations of objects, I find most curious the fact that computers seem to make possible that which is impossible to visualize for the human mind. From all of my work with processing this far, I would say randomness yields the most interesting.


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Tree Stadium is getting ready for 2018 Football Season.
All returning players must self-register online @ www.myfootballclub.com.au
Senior players and Junior players who are not claiming the Active Kids rebate self-register commencing from 5th January.
Junior players who are claiming the NSW Active Kids Rebate must self-register from 1st February to 9th February.
Note: please apply for the active kids voucher code before registering with my football club.
Photographs for 2018 are required only for the following
- All Under 10 boys & girls, All Under 14 boys & girls
- All Under 18 boys & girls,
- All new players with SHFC who are Under 10 and older
- All returning players in other age groups, 21 & up whose photo is more than 3 years old
Guidelines for photos are 122 pixels x 156 pixels; please ensure the photo is a passport style image of head only. No hats or glasses to be worn. Please refer to www.myfootballclub.com.au for further instructions. Any ID photo that is submitted incorrectly and printed by SSFA will incur a reprint fee of $10 per card. Please submit your selfie correctly.
If you have any problems or queries with online registration please contact: Myfootballclub Support Centre on (02) 8020 4199 – hours of operation Monday to Friday 9am-5pm or email: myfootballclub@
There are two payment options for registering on line:
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Under 13's & U15's TBA – refer to website for information
To assist the club in registration and grading process, it's essential that players must be registered and financial prior to grading commencing. Please note SSFA rules state players that are registered and not financial are not allowed to play or covered under insurance until all fees have been paid in full. Registrations after 5PM 6th March will be subjected to availability and a late fee. Thank you for your co-operation
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South Africa sees no hurry for new coal, gas power projects
JOHANNESBURG - South African programs to add coal and gas power generation from independent providers should wait until policies are updated and the nation's future needs are clearer, said Energy Minister Mmamaloko Kubayi.
The government is also seeking a "middle ground" with developers in a program to add renewable-energy projects, she said in a phone interview Tuesday. Kubayi announced earlier this month that the long-delayed contracts must be signed by the end of October, but not before pricing was renegotiated to make the deals more attractive to state-owned power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.
"Let's look at how much capacity do we need, and when," Kubayi said. The calculations should include economic growth estimates and determinations of how much generation is required from each technology, she said.
The gas-to-power program included plans for about 3,000 megawatts of capacity from proposed plants on South Africa's coast, the department said in October last year. Its coal program was designed to add 2,500 megawatts of capacity.
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"For those, we can't proceed right now," she said.
While the country's program to add renewable energy from private developers has drawn more than 200 billion rand ($15 billion) of investment, the most recent bidding rounds have stalled as Eskom refused to sign new power-purchase contracts. While developers welcomed Kubayi's announcement on Sept. 1 that the deals would be signed by the end of October, industry lobby groups have questioned her comments that pricing must be renegotiated. South Africa's cabinet and Eskom recommended a maximum price of 0.77 rand per kilowatt-hour.
Bidders will need to consider the legal, financial, and credit-risk implications on their projects if deals are renegotiated, according to the South Africa Photovoltaic Industry Association.
Setting a price ceiling on the renewable projects "actually removes all of the legitimacy of that program," said Niveshen Govender, program manager for Sapvia. "It's become actually difficult to understand where we're moving towards."
It's also unclear how the recommended price cap was settled on, said the South African Wind Energy Association.
"Undertaking negotiation after a duly concluded procurement process goes against South Africa's procurement rules," association Chief Executive Officer Brenda Martin said in an emailed statement. "We would hate to think that the extended delay and related job losses are set to continue for much longer, on the basis of an unachievable target."
Read also: Now is the time for gas as a power generation for SA
About 20 of the projects that the government plans to renegotiate can be completed for below the 0.77 rand level, Kubayi said. She said she isn't biased for or against any particular type of generation.
While the government "seems to be in its legal rights to stipulate a price cap," the uncertainty may deter investors in the future, Jason Harlan, CEO of Fieldstone Africa, a Johannesburg-based, energy-focused investment bank, said in an emailed reply to questions.