Pitney Bowes (PBI)

Other Regulatory Matters

          In August 2006, we reached a settlement with the IRS governing all outstanding tax audit issues in dispute for tax years through 2000. These disputed items related primarily to the tax treatment of corporate owned life insurance (COLI) and related interest expense, the tax effect of the sale of certain preferred share holdings and the tax treatment of certain Capital Services lease transactions. In the second quarter of 2006, we estimated the tax due as a result of the IRS settlement including our best estimate of the additional liability for these items in all open years, the sale of the Imagistics portfolio and the sale of the Capital Services business to be approximately $1.1 billion. Accordingly we recorded $61 million of additional tax expense. The $1.1 billion tax liability is net of $330 million of IRS tax bonds previously posted. In the third quarter, we paid $239 million of the $1.1 billion obligation to the IRS and we expect to pay the remainder by the end of 2006. These tax obligations are being funded with proceeds previously received from the sale of Imagistics and Capital Services and the advance against the cash surrender value of our COLI assets. $41 million of the $61 million tax expense relates to the Capital Services business and was included in discontinued operations and $20 million was included in continuing operations. We have accrued our best estimate of the probable tax, interest and penalties that we believe is appropriate given the likelihood of tax adjustments in all open tax years. However, the resolution of such matters could have a material effect on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.

          In the second quarter of 2006, we also accrued in discontinued operations an additional tax expense of $16.2 million to record the impact of the recently-enacted Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act (TIPRA). The TIPRA legislation repealed the exclusion from federal income taxation of a portion of the income generated from certain leveraged leases of aircraft by foreign sales corporations. See Note 4 for further discussion of the discontinued operations.