Tag Archives: John Koskinen

Charles Rettig, a more than 35-year tax attorney, will be nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the Internal Revenue Service. The White House said Thursday Rettig would serve the remainder of a five-year term that commenced Nov. 13 and succeed John Koskinen if confirmed by the Senate. He serves as a …

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have urged the Internal Revenue Service to provide information about the outage of a tool used to help students apply for federal financial aid. Lawmakers asked IRS commissioner John Koskinen in a letter published Thursday to brief the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Education and the Workforce on a …

Terry Milholland has departed his role as chief technology officer of the Internal Revenue Service as the critical pay authority through which he was hired nears its expiration, FCW reported Friday. Zach Noble writes Milholland joined the IRS eight years ago after he served as a technical officer at Visa …

The Internal Revenue Service has revealed the winners of the agency’s “Tax Design Challenge” crowdsourcing competition that sought designs for a future online tax information system. The tax collection agency said Friday the three-week challenge received 48 submissions that a review panel considered for three prize categories such as overall design, best taxpayer usefulness and best financial …

The Internal Revenue Service has implemented a two-step process designed to authenticate the identities of individuals who seek to access transcripts of tax returns and related services online in an effort to protect taxpayers from identity theft and other cyber threats. The IRS said Tuesday it collaborated with the U.S. …

The Treasury Department‘s inspector general for tax administration has identified an additional 390,000 taxpayer accounts that were potentially affected by a security breach on the Internal Revenue Service‘s Get Transcript online database last year. TIGTA also found hackers attempted to access the tax return transcripts of another 295,000 people during a …

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen said updates to the agency’s “antiquated” information technology system will need a budget of between $400 million and $500 million, Nextgov reported Friday. “I fondly refer to our IT system as a Model T with a very nice GPS system and a sound system and a …

Danny Werfel, former acting Internal Revenue Service chief, believes the IRS’ current leadership can handle the agency’s mission and budgetary challenges, Federal News Radio reported Monday. “I think they’re moving forward in the right direction,” Werfel told the radio station in an interview. He held the interim IRS commissioner role from …

The Internal Revenue Service has dismissed plans for employee furloughs in 2014 as the agency is set to receive $11.3 billion in funding, the same appropriations level it got last year, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jack Moore writes more than $500 million was cut from the IRS’ fiscal 2013 …

Danny Werfel has departed his role as controller of the Office of Management and Budget, Federal Times reported Friday. Sean Reilly writes Werfel, who served as OMB controller since October 2009, resigned on Dec. 31 and Deputy Controller Norman Dong has been named interim OMB controller. Werfel also served as …