It is with regret that I will be departing from the IRS as my acting assignment ends in early June. This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency….
On Friday, the IRS wrapped up what might have been its worst. week. ever with a hearing in front of the House Ways and Means Committee. The hearing focused on allegations that the IRS improperly targeted certain applications for tax-exempt status based on keywords and politically charged language. When the announcement was made about the…
And he’s outta here! Earlier today, Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller offered his resignation to President Obama. The resignation was issued amid a scandal that has plagued the IRS in recent days – and put the Obama administration in clear scramble mode. There have been calls for criminal charges (though for what…
Yesterday was a pretty busy day in the media. There was a lot of thought and commentary about the election and what it meant for the country. You might not have noticed, then, that the 47th Commissioner of the IRS was saying his goodbyes before the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in Washington,…