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From The Asian Reporter, V17, #46 (November 13, 2007), page 1.
IRS offers tax glossaries in various Asian languages
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced five new publications to help foreign-language communities understand federal tax forms and publications that are written in English. The new glossaries of tax terminology were created to help meet increased demand for tax-related resources in languages other than English.
The five new publications are new versions of Publication 850. The translated publications are available in Korean (EN/KR), Vietnamese (EN/VN), Russian (EN/RU), and two versions of Chinese — "simplified" (EN/CN-S) and "traditional" (EN/CN-T). A Spanish version is also available.
The Virtual Translation Office of the IRS helped create the glossaries to aid taxpayers and the professionals who assist them. The publications were developed in cooperation with professional translators and editors to establish uniformity in language and to function as reference materials for the products.
Although the publications are not legal documents, the IRS hopes the glossaries are useful to members of the Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese communities in the United States in understanding IRS documents and clarifying tax-related issues.
To download the glossaries, go to <www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=109875,00.html>, or visit <www.irs.gov> and enter "Publication 850" in the "Search" box.
For more information, visit <www.irs.gov>.