IRS Commissioner to Brief House Panel on Shutdown

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig will go to Capitol Hill Jan. 16 to brief the House Ways and Means Committee on the effects of the ongoing partial government shutdown, the House’s top tax writer told Bloomberg Tax.

• The Trump administration said tax refunds will be issued if shutdown continues into tax-filing season, which begins in late January
• Updated IRS plan, released Jan. 15, calls for 57.4 percent of its employees to work during filing-season shutdown
• Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) previously wrote letters to the agency and the Treasury Department asking how the shutdown will impact the upcoming ...