WASHINGTON - House Republicans have conjured up Halloween on the Web so taxpayers can tell their scariest stories about dealings with Internal Revenue Service goblins.
The Tell Us Your IRS Horror Story site is part of a widening campaign to build public sentiment for an overhaul or dismantling of the tax-collection agency.
Visitors get to answer a series of questions such as, "Do you think the IRS abuses its power or uses it responsibly?" Also included: a space for taxpayers to relate their most harrowing IRS experiences.
A spokesman for the House Republican Conference said the page has already drawn 300 tales of alleged IRS malfeasance.
The page's appearance follows House hearings earlier this fall that featured individual citizens telling how the agency terrorized them and a panel of IRS whistleblowers who testified behind a screen and used voice-scrambling devices to hide their identities.
