IRS uses YouTube to get rebate word out

[Robbien]

Source: USA Today

The agency produced four 30-second public service announcements that tell viewers how to claim their tax rebates from the economic stimulus plan.

Each YouTube video features an IRS employee standing in front of an American flag. The videos were put on the website starting on Friday, through the American Payroll Association's YouTube channel.

The videos are getting mixed reviews from young YouTube watchers.

"I don't see myself or anyone else I know looking for IRS information on YouTube," Michele Meyer, a 22-year-old Ithaca College senior from Stanhope, N.J., said in an e-mail. "Even if we did," she says, "those videos would not be appealing to us in the slightest. They have no real information, and the tone is almost patronizing."

Boston University junior Ashlie Chandler said that while the IRS videos were "boring and seemingly ridiculous," YouTube was a smart route for the IRS to take.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2008-03-25-irs-youtube_N.htm?csp=34

[liberalmuse]

1. I don't really care about the stinking rebate.

And it's interesting that the IRS seems to be shilling for it. Whatever I might be getting has already been sunk in the extra money we're paying for groceries and gas.

[onehandle]

2. Our $1200 will fuel my family's fleet of Hummers for a Week!

Thank God for George W. Bush!