1.   The public would not easily distinguish between local and national tax payments.

2.   The manner and timing of tax payments should be convenient to the taxpayer.

3.   Also, the GOP treats as burdens the tax payments that investors will voluntarily make as they sell stocks and bonds to take advantage of lower capital gains rates.

4.   Although the group did make the payment last Thursday, tax officials will investigate the case as an apparent intentional failure to make required tax payments.

5.   An added benefit is that most of the packages offer electronic filing and electronic tax payments, which the IRS is pushing quite hard this year.

6.   Analysts at NationsBank Corp. estimate individual tax payments will rise by double-digits for the second consecutive fiscal year.

7.   Another measure would allow the government to accept dollars as tax payments and to pay employees with dollars.

8.   As it is now, they say, Social Security offers too little in benefits for all those tax payments.

9.   As something of a transition bonus, you do not have to make estimated tax payments to cover household employment taxes.

10.   As with the current Series EE savings bonds, holders can defer tax payments on their earnings until a bond is redeemed.