2006 Tax Return Filing Season and the IRS Budget for Fiscal Year 2007: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, April 6, 2006, Volume 4 |
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2006 Filing Season 2007 budget request According to IRS accounts additional AICPA Alliance members ance areas assistor audits Business Systems Modernization Chairman RAMSTAD Circular 230 Commissioner Committee compliance Congress cost customer service e-filing electronic filing enacted enrolled agents estimates EVERSON Federal fiscal year 2007 Free File Alliance Free File Program FTEs funding goal Hurricanes Katrina impact improve income tax individual Internal Revenue Service IRS budget IRS officials IRS Oversight Board IRS's issues legislation March 11 Mark Everson ment NAEA number of taxpayers offer payers payment percent performance POMEROY President's Program Increases proposed reduce the tax refunds returns filed savings service and enforcement simplification Subcommittee tax administration tax gap tax law tax practitioners tax preparation tax return preparation taxpayer service TeleFile Program telephone Thank TIGTA tion toll-free telephone Treasury user fees walk-in sites
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Page 104 - 330,000 members. Our members advise clients on federal, state, and international tax matters and prepare income and other tax returns for millions of Americans. They provide services to individuals, not-for-profit organizations, small and medium-sized businesses, as well as America's largest businesses. It is from this broad base of experience that we offer our comments today on the IRS budget and the
Page 100 - to provide America's taxpayers with top quality service by helping them to understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all.
Page 2 - The hearing will take place on Thursday, April 6, 2006, in the main Committee hearing room, 1100 Long worth House Office Building, beginning at 10:00 am In view of the limited time available to hear witnesses, oral testimony at this hearing will be from invited witnesses only. Witnesses will include
Page 76 - Other walk-in contacts" includes assistance for account notices, tax law inquiries, forms, and compliance work, but not return preparation. For the walk-in sites, the time periods covered are December 31, 2000, through April 28, 2001; December 30, 2001, through April 27, 2002; December 29, 2002, through April 26, 2003; December 28, 2003, through April 24,
Page 13 - the tax gap. The tax gap is the difference between the amount of tax imposed on taxpayers for a given year and the amount that is paid voluntarily and timely. The tax gap represents, in dollar terms, the annual amount of noncompliance with our tax laws.
Page 112 - [The prepared statement of Mr. Degen follows:] Statement of Francis X. Degen, President, National Association of Enrolled Agents Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Lewis, and members of the Oversight Subcommittee for asking the National Association of Enrolled Agents (NAEA) to testify before you today. NAEA is the premier organization representing the interests of the 46,000 enrolled agents
Page 115 - nationwide. Its 11,000 members are licensed by the US Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers before all administrative levels of the IRS, including examination, collection, and appeals functions.
Page 76 - For volunteer sites, the time period covered for 2001 is January 1, 2001, through April 21, 2001; December 30, 2001, through April 27, 2002; December 29, 2002, through April 26, 2003; December 28, 2003, through April 24, 2004; and December 26, 2004, through April 23, 2005.
Page 101 - The result is not merely mind-numbing complexity but often disappointed taxpayer expectations as the complicated calculations make it difficult for taxpayers to plan whether they will be able to utilize tax benefits subject to
Page 80 - To address our recommendation, IRS agreed to take a variety of actions, which it has made progress in implementing. For example, IRS planned to develop a capital planning guide to implement processes for capital planning and investment control, budget formulation and execution, business case development, and project prioritization.