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Ron Wyden: “The next IRS commissioner will be in charge of administering a tax system that's broken in two.”

On the recordJune 27, 2018
The next IRS commissioner will be in charge of administering a tax system that's broken in two.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden critiques the inequity in the tax system.

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