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SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT

107th Congress

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 Amo Houghton (NY), Chairman

Subcommittee Hearings

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• IRS Performance Under Commissioner Rossotti and the Future Needs of the IRS
  • October 1, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory
• Request for Written Comments on H.R. 2237, Expanding the Exemption from Unrelated  Trade or Business Income for Conducting Certain Games of Chance by July 26, 2002
  • Press Advisory, Written Comments WMCP: 107-7
• Retirement Security and Defined Benefit Pension Plans
  • June 20, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Tax Incentives for Renewal Communities
  • May 21, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript, and Printed Hearing
• Review of Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) Requirements for Religious Organizations
  • May 14, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-69, and Printed Hearing
• Modeling the Economic Effect of Changes in Tax Policy
  • May 7, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-78, and Printed Hearing
• 2002 Tax Return Filing Season and the IRS Budget for Fiscal Year 2003
  • April 9, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-61, and Printed Hearing
• Employee and Employer Views on Retirement Security
  • March 5, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-52, and Printed Hearing
• IRS National Taxpayer Advocate Annual Report and IRS Oversight Board Annual Report
  • February 28, 2002 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-68, and Printed Hearing
• Response by Charitable Organizations to the Recent Terrorist Attacks
  • November 8, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Revised #2 Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-47, and Printed Hearing #107-47, PDF
• Deceptive Mailing Concerning Tax Refunds
  •  July 19 , 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-37, and Printed Hearing #107-37, PDF
• Series on Tax Code Simplification (Joint with Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures)
  •  July 17 , 2001 -- Hearing Advisory,  Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-40, and Printed Hearing #107-40, PDF
• Taxpayer Advocate Report and Low-Income Taxpayer Clinics
  •  July 12 , 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Revised Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-32, and Printed Hearing #107-32, PDF
• Hearing 2001 Tax Filing Season
  •  April 3 , 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-13, and Printed Hearing #107-13, PDF
• Written Comments on Taxpayer Rights
  •  Requested March 19, 2001 -- Press Advisory, Written Comments WMCP: 107-2, PDF
•  Energy Supply and Prices, Mayville, NY
  •  March 5, 2001 -- Hearing Advisory, Witness List and Testimony, Hearing Transcript 107-8, and Printed Hearing #107-8, PDF

Subcommittee Markups and Meetings

• No Subcommittee markups or meetings have been scheduled to date.

Recent Oversight-Related Issues Prints and Publications

•  WMCP:  107-2, PDF
  Written Comments on Taxpayer Rights, April 2, 2001.

Subcommittee Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Oversight shall include all matters within the scope of the full Committee's jurisdiction but shall be limited to existing law. Said oversight jurisdiction shall not be exclusive but shall be concurrent with that of the other Subcommittees. With respect to matters involving the Internal Revenue Code and other revenue issues, said concurrent jurisdiction shall be shared with the full Committee. Before undertaking any investigation or hearing, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight shall confer with the Chairman of the full Committee and the Chairman of any other Subcommittee having jurisdiction.

Source: "Manual of Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means for the One Hundred Seventh Congress," WMCP: 107-1.

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