The Internal Revenue Service, or the IRS (I-R-S), is a branch of
the United States Treasury Department. The IRS functions as a
national entity, but it's also broken down into different
divisions at more local levels. On the national level, the IRS
is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and is governed by a
commissioner appointed by the President of the United States.
This part of the IRS is mainly concerned with the policies that
govern tax-related issues. Procedures such as processing returns
and collecting taxes are handled at the IRS' regional Service
Centers. There are 10 such Service Centers, located in Andover,
Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Cincinnati,
Ohio; Fresno, California; Holtsville, New York; Kansas City,
Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; Ogden, Utah; and Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. These centers process approximately 200 million
tax returns and collect over one trillion dollars in taxes. The
regional centers of the IRS are in charge of its 33 district
offices, each of which is gover