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The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a partnership between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, hosted a virtual symposium on investments in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS…

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, California Congressman George Miller, economists, and experts participated in a panel discussion on financial security and tax reform. Among the topi…

Treasury officials spoke about the future of tax reform, the state of the economy, proposed plans to make several tax cuts permanent, as well as recent calls for Social Security reform. They…

Panelists described the modernization effort underway at the Internal Revenue Service, its impact on taxpayers and what to expect in the year 2000.

Republican and Democratic pollsters presented the results of a survey on the issue of social security reform and retirement. Panelists then spoke about President Bill Clinton’s proposed plan…

Former commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service talked about reforming the agency. They discussed different methods and the efficiency of reform and the proposals that came out of recen…

Senator Lieberman sponsored a forum on the future of Medicare and Social Security. Representatives of the business community and the Internal Revenue Service discussed the role of the federa…

The participants spoke about a variety of entitlement and federal budget issues, including fiscal responsibility, the need to cut federal spending and balancing the federal budget. They also…

Fred Goldberg and former Senator John Danforth (R-Missouri) discussed various issues concerning entitlement reform, which included such entitlements as Social Security, Medicare, unemploymen…

The subcommittee heard suggestions for the development of a new version of the 1988 Taxpayer Bill of Rights to assure responsible collection of taxes by the Internal Revenue Service.

The committee marked up a $30 billion tax measure which would restore tax deductable individual retirement accounts for Americans and create up to twenty-five free enterprise zones accross t…

The Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on the Bush administration’s proposal for “enterprise zones,” which would provide specific incentives for investors in particular areas of Americ…

The George H.W. Bush administration’s three top economic spokesmen detailed President Bush’s fiscal year 1993 budget plan.

The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee took testimony from witnesses at a hearing about IRS collection of overdue taxes.

The committee hearing was held to examine the federal government tax amnesty program. The committee met to consider proposals to implement programs to collect some of the estimated $180 bill…

The subcommittee continues hearings on Internal Revenue Service senior employment misconduct problems.