Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all challenges for us. Fortunately, the Filing Season this year has been implemented. We have 145,000 foreign Financial Institutions about to provide us data under the foreign account Tax Compliance act. All of those systems had to be built and rebuilt to obama sosh that data. If we could continue with the refund the resources we needed, wed get rid of a lot of these systems. Taxpayers would be able to go on line, as they do with bank of america, wells fargo or fidelity and deal with us without pape
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak clearly on this issue. It seems to me that its awfully hard to go to the hardworking american taxpayers and ask them to come ply with the tax laws when you have employee ins your own organization that dont comply. Can you commit to me that you are going to fix this problem and ensure that thats not going to happen again in the future . We have already adopted policies to address the problem. Not engaged in installment agreements, who are becoming compliant. But we still count those as compliant.
Congress, including the first africanamerican republican in the house, and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress on cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page as lots of good information including Voting Results and statistics. Irs commissioner John Koskinen tuesday on the 2016 budget request before the Senate Finance committee. He discussed tax scams, and shortages at the irs. The president s budget calls for an 18 increase for the agency. This is just over two hours. Welcome to the irs commissioner John Koskinen. Also fiscal year 2016 Budget Proposal. Commissioner koskinen. More than 152 years ago the finance Committee Received a letter from george butwell who president lincoln had apointed as the first commissioner of the international revenue. The letter came in response to an inquiry from the committee seeking information about the commissioners organization, his budget and the activities of his office. Does that sound familiar . In his letter,
Investigating looking to see what sparked a three alarm fire that killed two men and displaced 34 people. Mike show was out extent of the fire damage and why residents are calling one neighbor a hero. Reporter they are thanking one neighbor to help save many lives. She new it was time to leave her apartment. We were watching the fireman through the key hole and what they cracked the door, smoke started flying out the door. We grabbed all of our valuables which include my cat and our lives and ran. We were running through smoker. The three alarm blaze sparked around 3 00 this morning. Fire Officials Say it first burned on the second floor of this Apartment Building. Before spreading to an adjoining building on 23rd street with additional apartments. I wasnt even in the fire but just helping my friends out. As firefighters entered the first building. They bound to men. 35 and 28 years old dead inside a second floor apartment. One possibly died due to fire. One possibly due to smoke inhal
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