Chuck Rettig
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IRS Commissioner Chuck Retting told congressional staff that 100 agency employees had contracted the coronavirus, and four have died.
April 25, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen says the volunteers will receive a wellness stipend to help cover costs associated with the evacuations, including health care.
April 23, 2020 -
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig instructed eligible employees to telework and gave customer service workers more freedom than they've ever had before. But the commissioner's guidance has prompted confusion among risk-adverse IRS managers, who aren't accustomed to making their own decisions.
March 17, 2020 -
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told members at a hearing Tuesday that continued investment in the IRS’ IT modernization remains critical to “bring the IRS into the modern world.”
March 04, 2020 -
With this year’s tax season set to start Monday, NTEU has renewed concerns that the IRS, after a decade of budget cuts, has fewer resources to tackle a growing workload.
January 24, 2020 -
As a preview to the year ahead, here's a look at the major projects three public-facing agencies will encounter in 2020.
January 03, 2020 -
Embracing culture change and appointing a senior leader to develop and manage a organizational roadmap are among the ways agencies can improve their customer experiences, according to a new report from the Partnership for Public Service and Accenture Federal Services.
October 08, 2019 -
Congress appears ready to sign off on giving the IRS its biggest budget in nearly a decade, giving the agency enough resources to begin to roll out the latest in a series of modernization efforts.
September 27, 2019 -
The House Appropriations Committee approved a fiscal 2020 spending bill provision that would restore the IRS’s streamlined critical pay authority until September 2023.
June 11, 2019 -
The IRS reported auditing nearly 1 million tax returns in FY 2018, about 0.5% of 196 million tax returns filed during that year's filing season.
May 20, 2019 -
Despite the IRS's repeated calls IT modernization over the past 25 years, several new elements stand out in this latest proposal.
April 19, 2019 -
The latest IRS plan for modernization will strike long-time watchers with a sense of deja vu.
April 19, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, TIGTA found the IRS doesn't always follow its own procedures for reviewing and adjudicating cases of missed filings or under-reported income.
April 19, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) introduces new legislation requiring federal regulators to encourage financial institutions to work with consumers and other business impacted by a shutdown.
April 11, 2019 -
Now that the agency defends itself against more than a billion cyber attacks a year, Commissioner Chuck Rettig urged members of the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday for multi-year funds to modernize its hardware as well as its workforce, which hasn't recovered from seven years of a hiring freeze.
April 10, 2019