PRESS RELEASE: AIA Urges Senate Finance Committee to Ask Five Key Questions During Upcoming Confirmation Hearing for IRS Commissioner Nominee
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 19, 2025) — The Alliance for IRS Accountability (AIA) is calling on the Senate Finance Committee to ask five urgent questions during tomorrow’s confirmation hearing for new IRS Commissioner:
What structural reforms should be prioritized in the first 100 days?
What efforts will be made to eliminate perceived political bias at the agency?
What are some solutions to ensure the IRS is retooled to serve taxpayers’ best interests and improve customer service?
What steps can improve due process for taxpayers during IRS civil penalty administration - a process the National Taxpayer Advocate has called “often unfair”?
Should the IRS consider pausing economically impactful penalties on individuals and small businesses until structural reforms are implemented?
“The IRS’s culture is broken,” said Chuck Flint, AIA Executive Director. “It’s time to restore public trust by rooting out political bias and bureaucratic overreach. We look forward to the Senate Finance Committee seeking answers and the new IRS Commissioner committing to real reform.”
New polling conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for AIA to be released this week suggests a majority (53%) of likely voters are concerned that the IRS unfairly targets individuals and small businesses, which corroborates continued accusations of bias surrounding the agency. The new IRS commissioner, once confirmed, will be inheriting an agency much in need of a culture change.
AIA stands ready to work with the new IRS leadership to help better protect taxpayers and small businesses.
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The Alliance for IRS Accountability (AIA) is dedicated to protecting taxpayers and small businesses. The IRS is broken and operates with unchecked power. This has led to abusive enforcement practices and regulatory overreach that have unfairly targeted hard-working American taxpayers and business owners. AIA is building a broad alliance that will create a fair, transparent, and law-abiding agency that is accountable to individual Americans and businesses.
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Chuck Flint, Executive Director of the Alliance for IRS Accountability