The Internal Revenue Service has released a series of new podcasts to help charities, businesses, and individuals during the 2009 tax filing season.

In one podcast, Steve Miller, the commissioner of the IRS’s Tax-Exempt/Government Entities division, offers nonprofit officials information about the agency’s rules on political activities by nonprofit organizations.

The three-minute, 30 second audio segment comes as part of a larger effort by the agency to teach nonprofit groups about the rules that prohibit political activities by tax-exempt organizations.