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OMB Control No: 1545-2007	ICR Reference No: 200812-1545-020
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200606-1545-022
Agency/Subagency: TREAS/IRS	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Employer's Annual Employment Tax Return
Type of Information Collection: No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/10/2009
	Date Received in OIRA: 12/16/2008
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	10/31/2009	10/31/2009	10/31/2009
Responses	1,020,000	0	950,000
Time Burden (Hours)	14,019,000	0	14,212,000
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to New Statute	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,020,000	950,000	100,000	-30,000
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	14,019,000	14,212,000	2,051,000	-2,244,000
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: Form 944 is used to ensure nonagricultural and nonhousehold employers are paying the correct amount of social security tax, Medicare tax, and are withholding federal Income tax. Changes to IRC sectons 6011, 6205(a) 6413(a), 6302, 6402, and 6414 in connection with the IRSs development of new forms to report adjustments to employment taxes which will replace the existing process of reporting adjustments of employment taxes on regularly filed employment tax returns have resulted in the creation of the new Form 944-X. We also adjusted the priously approved burden to differentiate the burden estimates between three ICs approved under this approval number. The net result is a total burden decrease of 193,000 hours.

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