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  • Republicans Unsatisfied by IRS Answers Press for More

    House lawmakers say ousted Internal Revenue Service chief Steven Miller failed to fully explain why he didn’t inform them for more than a year that small-government groups seeking tax-exempt status were subject to extra scrutiny.

  • Lew Orders Review of IRS Systems After Groups Scrutinized

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said he learned in general terms about a probe into IRS screening of tax-exempt groups in March and now has ordered agency officials to deliver within 30 days a plan to correct any “systemic” shortcomings.

  • Former IRS Commissioner Shulman Will Testify May 22

    Douglas Shulman, the former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, will testify before Congress May 22, said Ali Ahmad, spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

  • Ousted Acting IRS Head Faces Lawmaker Grilling in Scandal

    Steven Miller, forced out as acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, will be questioned today by U.S. lawmakers on what he knew about scrutiny of small- government groups and why Congress wasn’t told.

  • Obama Appoints OMB’s Werfel as Acting IRS Commissioner

    President Barack Obama appointed Danny Werfel, controller of the White House budget office, as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.

  • Obama Said to Choose Acting IRS Chief as Hearings Start

    President Barack Obama plans to choose a new acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service this week as the first congressional hearings begin into the agency’s selective scrutiny of small-government groups, according to an administration official.

  • Obama Forces Out U.S. IRS Chief in Bid to Contain Damage

    President Barack Obama forced out the head of the Internal Revenue Service over the agency’s selective screening of nonprofit groups, as the administration sought to contain scandals imperiling its second-term agenda.

  • Obama Forces Out Acting IRS Chief in Bid to Rebuild Trust

    President Barack Obama announced the resignation of acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller amid an escalating scandal over the agency’s selective scrutiny of nonprofit organizations.

  • Tax Preparers 1, Taxpayers 0

    January 22, 2013 - A U.S. District Court has blocked the IRS from administering a program that would regulate and assess the competency of tax preparers, Bloomberg’s Richard Rubin reports. This goes straight to the bad-decision-of-the-week file.

  • IRS Delay in Disclosing Groups’ Scrutiny Focus of Probes

    The widening inquiries into the Internal Revenue Service are focusing less on why employees singled out small-government groups for scrutiny and more on agency executives who didn’t inform Congress earlier.

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