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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (762)	12/22/1997 11:13:00 PM
From: Todd J.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Get ready for a flat tax in 2000... usatoday.com EXCERPTS: ''I don't think there will be a lot of time to spare, and it will be very nerve-racking,'' she said. ''Government is having a very hard time getting enough qualified people.'' The size of the IRS' Year 2000 problem is enormous. The agency has to review 88,000 programs on 80 mainframe computers, debug a large telecommunications system and check such mundane items as elevators and building security systems. So far, the IRS has converted 2,000 programs.(HELLO...ONLY 86,000 LEFT TO DO) ''I certainly don't think we're going to have extraordinary problems associated with the Year 2000,'' Yost said. ''We are on top of the problem.'' A leading congressional expert on Year 2000, Rep. Steve Horn, R-Calif., expressed strong confidence in the IRS' assistant commissioner for technology, Arthur Gross, and other top management. ''They're a first-rate team,'' Horn said. ''If any agency can do it, Gross will do it. He's got a proven track record. ... I look for good things from IRS.'' YEA RIGHT! Todd