In April, the House Ways and Means Committee released a detailed report that revealed the IRS had deliberately diverted funding away from taxpayer assistance, leading to dreadful customer service this filing season. Now, Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, is calling on the IRS to recommit to serving the taxpayer. Echoing many of the findings by Ways and ...

WASHINGTON, DC — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) Chairman Rob Portman (R-OH) today released the second ...

Next up: Oversight. Since the start of the 114th Congress, Ways and Means has been focused on holding the Obama administration accountable to U.S. taxpayers. Under the leadership of Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), the committee has put the spotlight on mismanagement ...

WASHINGTON Today, the Ways and Means Committee released a new report on the IRSs exceedingly poor customer service during the 2015 tax-filing season. Despite the IRSs claim that its lackluster performance was due to budget cuts, the committee has found extensive evidence that the IRS deliberately cut funding for customer service that was fully under its control These ...

WASHINGTON Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the 2015 tax filing season and general operations at the Internal Revenue Service.     "Welcome to the Oversight Subcommittee's third hearing of the 114th Congress. Today we will review the 2015 tax return ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during the subcommittee's hearing on the IRS’s use of civil-asset forfeiture laws to seize the bank accounts of law-abiding small businesses ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) introduced H.R. 599, the Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act of 2015. The bill would prohibit the IRS from changing the way it handles applications for 501(c)4 status. And ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen asking him to explain why the agency recently hired CGI Federal, the same contractor that bungled the rollout of Healthcare.gov. Upon sending the letter, Chairman Roskam issued the following statement. “The American people should ...