Editor,
The IRS plan to close its office in San Mateo is bad news for the local economy, for the taxpayers who need access to that office and for the employees who work there.
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Editor,
The IRS plan to close its office in San Mateo is bad news for the local economy, for the taxpayers who need access to that office and for the employees who work there.
For years, the O’Farrell Street office has served the community of San Mateo by making it easier to for local business owners and others to have in-person access to the IRS employees who are helping them meet their tax obligations. Without the San Mateo office, those taxpayers will have to travel to San Francisco, San Jose or Oakland for service.
Our union, the National Treasury Employees Union, represents 43 IRS employees who would be forced to commute an extra 20 miles to San Francisco or 35 miles to San Jose once the San Mateo office closes, as planned, in September.
When you read the news from Washington about how Congress and the administration want to slash the IRS budget, please remember the impact those cuts will have on the government services that the people of San Mateo expect and deserve, and on your friends and neighbors who provide those services as revenue agents and revenue officers.
We are asking the IRS to reverse course and allow the people of San Mateo to keep their IRS office open and keep those 43 jobs in downtown San Mateo, ready to serve the local community.
Alphonzo Breland
Oakland
The letter writer is the president of NTEU Chapter 20.
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Thanks for your letter, Mr. Breland. Perhaps instead of closing the San Mateo IRS office, you can ask the IRS to close the San Francisco, San Jose, or Oakland office. Also, from your letter, it sounds like the IRS hasn’t fired or laid off any of the 43 positions so isn’t that a win? Especially since the government has been shaving down the number of government employees. And as others have noted, I also didn’t realize there was a San Mateo IRS office.
This is the first time I am hearing about an IRS office in San Mateo. So it is probably under utilized.
Regarding your statement " please remember the impact those cuts will have on the government services that the people of San Mateo." what are those services? Can't they be fulfilled at another office or the phone?
Lou - it takes 43 folks to address those services, so it must be important. Another one of those government functions that no one knew that they existed and will miss.
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