# Open Meeting of the Area 1 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (Including the States of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine)
**AGENCY:**
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Treasury.
**ACTION:**
Notice of meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
An open meeting of the Area 1 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted. The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is soliciting public comments, ideas and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service.
**DATES:**
The meeting will be held Tuesday, February 17, 2009.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Audrey Y. Jenkins at 1-888-912-1227 or 718-488-2085.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
Notice is hereby given pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) that an open meeting of the Area 1 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be held Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. For more information please contact Audrey Y. Jenkins at 1-888-912-1227 or 718-488-2085. If you would like to have the TAP consider a written statement, please write Audrey Y. Jenkins, TAP Office, 10 MetroTech Center, 625 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, or you can post comments to the Web site: *http://www.improveirs.org.*
The agenda will include various IRS issues.
Dated: December 22, 2008.
Roy L. Block,
Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel.