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The report also highlights the costs for promotional products used during the event. More than $64,000 was spent on incentive items for the conference, including:
- 2,804 "brief bags" with an imprinted logo were provided to all attendees at an estimated cost of $15,669. The logo on each bag included the caption "Leading into the Future," the theme of the conference.
- 2,800 hard-covered spiral journals with a conference logo imprinted on the front and the hotels' and event planners' logos on the inside cover. The IRS paid $2,449 for 505 journals, with an additional $13,064 paid by the hotels, the event planners, and the Anaheim Convention and Visitors Bureau.
- 800 lanyards, 75 travel mugs, and 75 picture frames/clocks with the SB/SE Division logo, along with an unknown number of imprinted portfolios, sticky note pads, bookmarks, and retractable badge holders with a reported cost totaling approximately $19,210.
- Various promotional items totaling approximately $27,000 were provided at the information corridor booths. These included items such as "engraved pens/badge holders, give-away items from Oriental Trading, promotional pens/printing poster/web cams, and imprinted can coolers/post-it notes."
"We did not identify any guidance at the time of the conference outlining the purchase of gift items/mementos for conferences sponsored by the IRS," the report noted. The IRS adopted guidance that would discontinue the purchase of promotional products for conferences in October 2012.
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Kyle A. Richardson is the editorial director of Promo Marketing. He joined the company in 2006 brings more than a decade of publishing, marketing and media experience to the magazine. If you see him, buy him a drink.
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