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Nancy L. Johnson: “We did run into the same problem with the taxpayer service representatives and felt that they were saying about problems…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1996
We did run into the same problem with the taxpayer service representatives and felt that they were saying about problems that the taxpayers were having with the IRS was not getting to us, and so we did add provisions in the taxpayers bill of rights to require direct reporting, and between now and conference we need to look at that mechanism. We have not been able to sort of clear that under the short timeframe we have been working on because of the nature of the inspector general's work and the police powers involved and so on and so forth, but we do need to assure that that information does get to the committees of oversight so that we can be certain that the agency is responding appropriately.
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Nancy L. Johnson
Connecticut
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Discussing taxpayer service issues and oversight of the IRS.

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