"Thank you, Madame Secretary, for appearing before the Ways & Means Committee today. I will note, last year we waited 71 days between the release of the President’s Budget and your testimony before this Committee. So we commend you for promptly appearing today, on the day after the Budget was released, to defend President Biden’s $5 trillion tax hike.
"After two years of economic ...
WASHINGTON, DC – American taxpayers struggling in the Biden economy deserve answers about how President Biden’s $4.7 trillion tax hike, proposed in his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget, will impact them, wrote Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in a letter to ...
WASHINGTON, DC – A think tank with ties to the liberal wing of the Democrat party is drawing scrutiny from Ways and Means Republicans after it was selected by the Biden Administration to receive $15 million in taxpayer funds to “review” an e-file program designed to make the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) both tax collector and tax preparer – a program for which the ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Taxpayers whose privacy has been repeatedly abused and their financial information leaked by the government deserve answers from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), wrote House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) and House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman David Schweikert (AZ-01) in a
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) are requesting detailed information from top government health officials regarding the $3 billion drug price-setting implementation ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Nineteen months after a massive leak of confidential taxpayer information was published by ProPublica, the American people are still in the dark, charged House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in a letter sent ...
WASHINGTON, DC – After the IRS failed to fulfill a request by Congress’s top tax panel to inform the agency’s more than 80,000 employees about a new whistleblower portal for reporting ...
Washington, D.C. – Rather than keep Congress waiting for the Biden Administration’s plans for how it will use $80 billion in new funding for audits and tax enforcement or details on the myriad of other ways in which the Administration will saddle middle class families with higher taxes and more debt to pay for its welfare for the wealthy agenda, House Ways and Means Committee ...
Washington, DC – In another instance of President Biden violating his pledge not to use the newly supercharged IRS against workers earning less than $400,000 a year, the tax collection agency announced a new dragnet to ensure workers properly report their tips. The program, according to an IRS announcement, is “to improve tip reporting compliance” but is just the latest effort to scrutinize ...
WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Ways and Means Republicans ongoing aggressive oversight of the Biden Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08)