IRS To Spend $42 Million To Send Out Tax-Rebate Letters

(Thanks to TheCelebrityCafe.com and ToTheCenter.com for this report)

The IRS wants you to know that your rebate check is almost in the mail. To do this, they will spend $42 million in American citizens tax dollars.

The Internal Revenue Service is spending the money on letters that tell citizens to expect a rebate check which stems from the economic stimulus plan.

The notes are going out this month to approximately 130 million households who filed returns for the 2006 tax year, according to IRS spokesman John Lipold.

The calculation is broken down to about 32 cents to print, process and mail each letter. Keith Hennessey, director of the president’s National Economic Council, said the letters are vital in explaining how the tax will work.

As was expected, the Democrats accused the Bush administration of wasting postage and time with the letters.

“There are countless better uses for $42 million than a self-congratulatory mailer that gives the president a pat on the back for an idea that wasn’t even his,” Sen. Charles Schumer said Friday.