John Shaw: “I stand up in vigorous support of a commonsense change in the law as it affects the taxpayers' rights in balancing it…”

“I stand up in vigorous support of a commonsense change in the law as it affects the taxpayers' rights in balancing it out with the rights and duties of the Internal Revenue Service. The Internal Revenue Service is a needed agency which looks over the collection of taxes in this country. There is no question about it. But there are some things that need to be balanced out which this legislation does. To give just a few examples of what is in this bill that needs to be done: One of the provisions in here would allow the IRS to release property on which there are liens when it is to the advantage of the Government to do so. Right now they cannot do that. You have situations where businesses are closed down, where if the IRS would simply allow them to continue to exist for a short period of time, the Federal Government could make up some of the dollars that it is losing. And, of course, also, there is a question of jobs being lost. This is just plain common sense.”