WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing, entitled “Combating Fraud in Medicare: A Strategy for Success,” on Tuesday, July 17, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building. The hearing will focus on how the Centers for Medicare ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to return taxpayer funds, which the IRS seized using its civil asset forfeiture authority. The hearing is entitled “Update on IRS and DOJ ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA), Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Members of the Subcommittee sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requesting Acting Commissioner David Kautter provide answers to a series of questions regarding the agency’s systems crash ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today delivered the following opening statement at a full Committee markup of bills to redesign the IRS and strengthen taxpayer protections from the Subcommittees on Oversight, Trade, and Social Security.
What: Full Committee on Ways and Means Markup
Where: 1100 Longworth House Office Building
When: Wednesday, April 11, 10 AM ET
Visit waysandmeans.house.gov/live to watch the markup.
The IRS is still using fax machines. It's time for a makeover
By Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS), Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee
CNN – March 26, 2018
Thanks to the Internal Revenue Service, many dread the month of April. In fact, if given the option between (a) dealing ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) released a discussion draft entitled “The Taxpayer First Act.” This bipartisan legislation will propose ways to redesign the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the first time since 1998.
Chairman Jenkins said:
Current Systems from the Kennedy Era
In this day and age, no major organization can be successful without modern technology to support it. And yet, did you know that the IRS continues to maintain information technology (IT) systems dating back to when President Kennedy was in office in the early 1960s? These systems, which are critical to ensuring the IRS’s ability to ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. —House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today called on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner David Kautter to immediately implement screening procedures to ensure employees with serious conduct issues are not receiving bonuses. Their letter comes following a recent ...
Top row: Chairman Jenkins and Ranking Member Lewis. ...
