IRS Chief Mulls Creation of a Practitioner Division

July 9, 2019, 8:17 PM UTC

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said he’s considering creation of a new division in the agency focused on the needs of the tax practitioner community.

“I’m aware of it. I’m sensitive to it. And I understand the need for it,” said Rettig, a former longtime tax practitioner himself. He said he has received proposals from outside of the Internal Revenue Service for how such a division might work.

If the agency can accomplish this while balancing its other priorities, it will do so, he said July 9 at the IRS Nationwide Tax Forum at Maryland’s National Harbor, outside Washington, D.C. ...

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