WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Susan Collins issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, and U.S. Representative Jared Golden are calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to immediately reverse the closure of its Augusta and Bangor Tax Assistance Centers (TAC).
TACs are physical offices that offer assistance to Mainers who lack stable internet access, need help navigating technology, or otherwise need in-person assistance. With the Presque Isle TAC having previously been shuttered and Downeast Maine long lacking its own TAC, some Northern Mainers already travel hundreds of miles to access IRS services in Bangor. If the Bangor and Augusta offices - the only TACs in Maine's Second Congressional Distric...