WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two new reports regarding serious flaws in the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) audit selection processes. GAO confirmed that these flaws mean the IRS could continue to unfairly target American taxpayers based on their political beliefs and other First Amendment protected views.
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R- IL) expressed concern after reviewing the National Taxpayer Advocate’s annual report to Congress about the most serious problems taxpayers face when dealing with the ...
Washington, DC — Today Kevin Brady, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced the selection of new subcommittee chairs and subcommittee assignments for Republican Members of the committee. The new assignments were necessitated by the election of former committee chairman Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House, Brady’s selection to ...
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement after the Department of Justice announced that it is closing its investigation of the IRS's improper targeting of conservative groups.
"While predictable coming from this administration, this news is still deeply disappointing. Over the past ...
WASHINGTON, DC – This afternoon, the IRS announced that additional taxpayers had their personal information compromised in a data breach, far above previous estimates released in May. In response, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) released the following ...
This week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), is urging the administration to return assets seized from small business owners under an abusive policy that has since been abandoned. ...
WASHINGTON, DC — This week, a bipartisan group of members on the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee is calling on the Treasury Department to return money seized from a Maryland family of dairy farmers. Earlier this year, the subcommittee held a hearing examining civil asset forfeiture and found that small-business owners were having their bank accounts ...
Blaming Bush: Out. Blaming Woodrow Wilson: In. Apparently.
When it comes to the IRS targeting scandal, the president has been trying to rewrite history for some time now. At first contrite, he’s been increasingly cavalier and
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s audit selection process and internal controls within the Tax Exempt and Government Entities division. This hearing comes on the same day a
Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report detailing striking flaws in the IRS audit selection process that could lead to targeting of organizations based on their political beliefs and other First Amendment protected views. In the wake of the Lois ...
