House Committee Members Demand IRS Commissioner Be Fired
Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a lengthy letter to President Obama today demanding that IRS commissioner John Koskinen be removed from his position.
Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a lengthy letter to President Obama today demanding that IRS commissioner John Koskinen be removed from his position.
An article from the Associated Press cited a report released this week which said that nearly 1,600 IRS employees willfully evaded taxes over a 10 year period. What was the report cited by this article? We have posted it for your review.
A new report from the House Ways and Means Committee says that the IRS deliberately cut funding to taxpayer services, resulting in increased wait times for customers, more delays in paying tax refunds, and other customer service problems.
Congressman Kenny Marchant (R-TX) recently introduced legislation that would prohibit IRS employees from using personal email accounts to conduct official business.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to the IRS commissioner this week asking how the Treasury Inspector General was able to recover 80,000 emails that the agency said were lost.
In a speech given this week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that it is time to abolish the Internal Revenue Service in favor of a simpler and more flat tax code.
As the new Congress convened this week, one Congressman made his traditional introduction of legislation that would abolish the IRS in lieu of a national consumption tax.
One of Lois Lerner’s emails that was recently uncovered in the ongoing IRS investigation details how the union prevented disciplinary action from being taken on a non-performing but highly paid IRS employee. The revelation has the House Subcommittee on Oversight concerned about the value the IRS is getting for what it spends on union activity.
The Internal Revenue Service issued a consumer alert today providing taxpayers with additional tips to protect themselves from telephone scam artists calling and pretending to be with the IRS.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government reform sent a letter to Eric Holder again requesting special counsel be appointed in the IRS targeting investigation, citing a new potential conflict of interest the Committee recently learned about.