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• Source: Mobile Register
• Date: August 05, 2007
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• Bylines: Dan Murtaugh
• Topics: Demographics , Disasters
• Data Types: Federal Data
• Description/Excerpt: Nearly 2,300 people who fled communities ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 decided to make new homes in Mobile County, an analysis of tax records suggests. Another 723 relocated to Baldwin County. The analysis of Internal Revenue Service information provides the first clear data indicating the number of Katrina evacuees who put down roots in coastal Alabama. Every year, the IRS notes the counties from which people file their federal income tax statements. When people move to a new county, the IRS tallies the change in its county-to-county migration database. The IRS data that the Press-Register reviewed showed the migration that occurred between tax statements filed in 2005 and 2006, the latest such records available to the newspaper. The IRS allowed Katrina victims to file their 2006 tax returns up to four months later than the usual April deadline.