News Archive

IRS sets the record straight: We’re going after tax evaders, not honest Americans – Yahoo! Finance Op Ed – Charles P. Rettig, IRS Commissioner – August 24, 2022

Another Republican lie is born – Washington Post-Opinion – August 24, 2022

Letter from the American College of Tax Counsel to Congressional Leaders – August 22, 2022

What $80 Billion Buys the IRS – Wall Street Journal – Tax Report by Laura Saunders – August 20, 2022

The IRS May Soon Get Bigger Claws – Wall Street Journal – Tax Report by Laura Saunders – August 5, 2022

Longstanding Funding Shortfalls Fuel Public Perception of IRS – Bloomberg Tax Opinion by Charles Rossotti – April 22, 2022

The IRS urgently needs more money and staff – Washington Post Editorial – April 19, 2022

In praise of the Internal Revenue Service – The Economist – April 16, 2022

The IRS must be properly funded; here’s why – Baltimore Sun Guest Commentary by Alex Boyle – March 14, 2022

Taxes: IRS crisis ‘has just been building up over years,’ former IRS commissioner says – Yahoo!finance Interview with Charles Rossotti – March 4, 2022

Tax Experts Urge Congress To Fix IRS Backlog And Reduce The Tax Gap – Letter to Congress – March 3, 2022

CBO’s IRS Estimates Undercount Expected Revenue From Closing Tax Gap – STTG Press Release – November 17, 2021

Biden needs to mount a full-on crisis response to rebuild the IRS – Yahoo!finance op-ed – March 2, 2022

Center for American Progress Seminar: Toward Stronger and Fairer Tax Enforcement – November 3, 2021

Biden Wants Banks to Give More Information to the IRS. Here’s Why That’s a Good Idea – Time Letter to the Editor by Charles Rossotti – October 13, 2021

The National Academy of Public Administration and Shrink the Tax Gap sponsored a Symposium Series on the Transformation of the IRS; here are replays of each of the 90-minute sessions:

Information Reporting Is Not Auditing And Is Not Taxing – Tax Notes Letter to the Editor by Charles Rossotti – September 30, 2021

Banks Are Wrong to Fight Proposed New IRS Disclosure Rule – Charley Ellis & Alex Boyle – Bloomberg Opinion – September 28, 2021

The Tax Gap and the Biden Plan to Beef Up the IRS – Charles Rossotti – WSJ Letter to the Editor – September 10, 2021

The Case for a Robust Attack on the Tax Gap – Natasha Sarin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy – September 7, 2021

Give IRS the tools it needs to enforce tax rules and catch cheaters – William G. Gale, Co-Director Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center – Brookings Op-Ed – September 1, 2021

Letter from Current IRS Commissioner Rettig to Senator Elizabeth Warren – August 27, 2021

Is Biden’s budget too much for the IRS? Not even close – The Hill Opinion – August 25, 2021

Closing America’s “Tax Gap” – Business Forward Foundation Issue Brief – August 2021

Shrinking the Tax Gap Requires a Renewed IRS Workforce by Charles Rossotti & Ronald Sanders – Government Executive – August 3, 2021

The Tax Gap & IRS Funding – Tax Analysts Taxing Issues Webinar – Cara Griffith with former Taxpayer Advocate Service head Nina Olson and former IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg – July 28, 2021

Getting Americans to pay what they owe shouldn’t be controversial – Boston Globe Editorial – July 28, 2021

What Can The IRS Do To Enforce Tax Laws? – NPR’s Scott Simon with Chye-Ching Huang of the NYU Tax Law Center – July 24, 2021

Why the GOP Made a Mistake Killing Off Biden’s IRS Plan – Politico Opinion by Charles O. Rossotti, Fred Forman and Fred Goldberg – July 20, 2021

Briefing: Former IRS Commissioners on Shrinking the Tax Gap – Business Forward Podcast with Charles Rossotti and Fred Goldberg – July 14, 2021

The Current State of Taxpayer Service (or Lack Thereof) at the IRS – Procedurally Taxing Blog by Nina Olson – July 14, 2021

Biden Financial Reporting Requirement an Integral Part of Plan to Address Tax Gap – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Off the Charts by Chuck Marr – July 12, 2021

Bipartisan infrastructure deal could make it harder for tax cheats to elude IRS – Washington Post – June 28, 2021

Former IRS Chiefs On How To Fix The Tax Gap – On Point Radio Interview (50 minutes) – June 15, 2021

Treasury says tax gap to balloon to $7 trillion over next decade, calls for beefed-up IRS – CNBC Politics – June 10, 2021

Testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Mark J. Mazur to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, U.S. House of Representatives – June 10, 2021

We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion. – New York Times Opinion Guest Essay – June 9, 2021

Briefing: IRS modernization and tax compliance provisions of the American Families Plan – Business Forward Podcast with Natasha Sarin – June 9, 2021

Tax Notes Letter to the Editor – May 31, 2021

Rossotti Letter to the Editor – Washington Post – May 31, 2021

Biden’s IRS crackdown plan includes targeting wealthy tax evaders, reporting cryptocurrency in effort to close tax gap – Fortune – May 20, 2021

Biden’s Tax Math for $4 Trillion Runs Into Congress Scorekeepers – Bloomberg News – May 20, 2021

Biden’s IRS Crackdown Proposal Targets Rich Hiding Income – Bloomberg News – May 20, 2021

Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers Over $10,000 to Be Reported to IRS – Bloomberg News – May 20, 2021

Treasury targets tax cheats, cryptocurrency in proposal it hopes will bring in $700 billion – Washington Post – May 20, 2021

The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda – Treasury Department – May 20, 2021

Trump’s pick for IRS chief is now faced with implementing Biden’s economic agenda – Washington Post – May 20, 2021

Senate Appropriations Committee – Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Hearing (full hearing) – May 19, 2021

Fred Goldberg CBSN Interview – May 13, 2021 (12 minutes)

Fred Goldberg Interview on Tax Policy Center’s “The Prescription” with Howard Gleckmen – May 13, 2021 (30 minutes)

Charles Rossotti Interview on CNBC – Squawk Box with Becky Quick – May 13, 2021 (5 minutes)

Tackle the tax gap by Alex Brill, American Enterprise Institute Blog Post – May 12, 2021

Better IT could generate hundreds of billions of dollars at Internal Revenue Service Government Matters interview of former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen – May 12, 2021

Charles Rossotti Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Taxation & IRS Oversight on May 11, 2021

(note: paywall) Joe Biden’s best bet is to close the federal tax gap by Charles Ellis, Financial Times – May 10, 2021

Former commissioners agree the Internal Revenue Service should be a $20 billion organization, Government Matters with Francis Rose (broadcast on WJLA TV) – May 9, 2021

Joe Biden IRS audit proposal raises accountability, privacy issues, The Washington Times by David Sherfinski – May 7, 2021

Five former IRS commissioners: Biden’s proposal would create a fairer tax system, Washington Post Opinion – May 4, 2021

Interview with Former IRS Commissioner Fred T. Goldberg, Bloomberg Radio, Balance of Power with David Westin – April 29, 2021

Politico Pro Morning Tax by Bernie Becker – April 29, 2021

Biden Tax Plan Leans on Banks to Help Finance Unreported Income by Orla McCaffrey & Richard Rubin – Wall Street Journal – April 29, 2021

Investing in the IRS and Improving Tax Compliance – US Treasury Department Press Release – April 28, 2021

Former IRS Commissioners: Biden’s plan to invest in the IRS will pay off for taxpayers by Fred Goldberg & Charles Rossotti, USA Today – April 28, 2021

Biden Seeks $80 Billion to Beef Up I.R.S. Audits of High-Earners by Jim Tankersley & Alan Rappeport, New York Times – April 28, 2021

President Seeks IRS Funding Increase, by Richard Rubin, Wall Street Journal – April 28, 2021

The $1 Trillion Tax Evasion Opportunity, Wall Street Journal Opinion by William A. Galston – April 20, 2021

Biden’s Big Agenda Relies on a Shrunken, Strained Agency: The IRS, Wall Street Journal by Richard Rubin – April 20, 2021

IRS chief says some $1T in taxes going uncollected annually, Politico: Tax by Aaron Lorenzo – April 13, 2021

The United States Forgoes Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Each Year Due to Unpaid Taxes – Peter G. Petersen Foundation – April 6, 2021

A Tool to Reduce Growing Budget Deficits? The Collection of Unpaid Taxes, Committee for Economic Development, The Conference Board – CED Trustee Briefing – March 31, 2021

How to Collect $1.4 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes, New York Times Editorial Board Opinion – March 20, 2021

A new attack on Biden’s stimulus gives Democrats a way to call the GOP’s bluff, Washington Post Opinion by Greg Sargent – March 11, 2021

How Biden Funds His Next Bill: Shrink the $7.5 Trillion Tax Gap, by Chye-Ching Huang, New York Times Op Ed – March 10, 2021

Make Tax System Fairer, Easier for Taxpayers While Collecting $1.4 Trillion Owed But Not Paid – Bloomberg Tax Op Ed by Charles Rossotti & Fred Goldberg – February 17, 2021

Taxgirl Podcast Interview with Charles Rossotti – Kelly Erb (Taxgirl) – February 16, 2021

$574 billion in taxes weren’t paid in 2021. Here’s how to shrink the gap – by Fred Goldberg & Charles Rossotti – Fortune Commentary*Taxes – January 30, 2021

Treasury Deputy Calls for Information Reporting to Close Tax Gap – Bloomberg Tax – January 29, 2021

Friday Feedback: Tax & PACs – Fortune CEO Daily (excerpt) – January 22, 2021

Rossotti tax plan narrows gap without raising taxes – Baltimore Sun Commentary – Alexander Boyle – January 15, 2021

There’s a Way Biden Can Raise More From the Rich Without Higher Taxes – NY Times “The Upshot”
by Neil Irwin – December 22, 2020

How do you score IRS enforcement? – Politico – Weekly Tax Newsletter – December 14, 2020

Interview with Charles Rossotti & Natasha Sarin – Bloomberg Radio Balance of Power – December 4, 2020

Update 1: Revised Process for 1099NEW – November 11, 2020

The Wall Street Journal – Avoiding Taxes Is Easy, When You Own a Business – October 10, 2020

Bloomberg Opinion – Don’t Raise Taxes. Collect the Billions Not Being Paid. – October 7, 2020

Trump’s Taxes Gives Biden Blueprint to Fix System Rigged for Rich – Bloomberg Businessweek – October 1, 2020

Tax Policy Center Interview with Charles Rossotti – September 4, 2020

Annual IRS/TPC Conference – Keynote: Charles Rossotti – June 4, 2020