WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), joined by every Republican member of the Committee, sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) demanding DOJ explain their misguided decision to charge Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee, Charles Edward Littlejohn, with just one count of unauthorized ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After Hunter Biden claimed in an op-ed in USA Today that his struggle with addiction was the key issue in congressional investigations that have uncovered evidence linking his influence peddling scheme to his father, Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed legislation on a bipartisan basis to support Israel’s defense in response to the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08), alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04), Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-04), and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01), joined Fox News host Sean Hannity to discuss the latest on the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Republicans are redirecting $14.3 billion of the $80 billion awarded to the IRS to instead support our ally, Israel. This is the same funding the IRS planned to use to hire 87,000 new agents to increase audits on the middle class. It is also the same funding that congressional Democrats and the White House agreed to cut by $21 ...
By Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08)
WASHINGTON – During the pandemic, fraudsters and international crime rings stole hundreds of billions of American tax dollars that were supposed to be spent on pandemic relief. The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates that instances of fraud in the unemployment insurance program alone have cost as much as $135 billion while outside experts have estimated up to $400 ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans will be powerless against an agency that is now going to be tax preparer, filer, and auditor as part of the IRS’s soon-to-be released e-file system, which ...
Even though the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a report showing that taxpayers are uninterested in the IRS ...
As prepared for delivery. "Good morning and welcome to today’s Oversight Subcommittee hearing on investigating pandemic fraud and preventing history from repeating itself. "We have all seen the headlines – 'Biggest fraud in a generation,' 'Easy money,' 'The Great Grift.' These terms were used to describe the historic ...