IRS budget should be restored.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 July 1996

On July 1, 1996, Tax Executives Institute submitted the following comments to the Senate Committee on Appropriations concerning the Internal Revenue Service's budget for fiscal year 1997. (A similar letter was sent to the House Appropriations Committee during that committee's deliberations on the budget.) TEI's comments were prepared under the aegis of the Institute's IRS Administrative Affairs Committee, whose chair is Robert L. Ashby of Northern Telecom Inc.

As President of Tax Executives Institute, I am writing to express the Institute's serious concerns about the decision of the House Appropriations Committee to significantly reduce the fiscal 1997 budget for the Internal Revenue Service, and to urge the Senate to restore the cut funds. TEI is the professional association of in-house tax professionals, with our 5,000 members representing the largest 2,700 companies in North America. Our members deal with the IRS on a daily basis, and although they are frequently involved in tax disputes with the agency, they are committed to maintaining a tax system that works and appreciate that this is a goal that the IRS...